Of balls and strikes, discrimination and documentation.

Major League Baseball has an umpire problem this season. Players, sportswriters and fans alike have been frustrated by an unusually high rate of balls called strikes, strikes called balls, runners who were safe called out and vice versa.

Through Sept. 1, fully 49% of on-field calls subject to instant replay review have been overturned. Entire YouTube channels are devoted to the supposed sorry state of umpiring this season. Many of the men in blue have come in for personal criticism that they are suddenly no good at their jobs in 2022.

However, one umpire has drawn the ire of players and fans for decades--and he has been embroiled in a discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball since 2017.

Angel Hernandez became an MLB ump in 1993. It's safe to say he is the most disliked umpire in the game. He sued MLB five years ago, claiming racial discrimination kept him from being named a crew chief and cost him the opportunity to umpire World Series games. (Both bring extra pay.)

Last year, a federal court judge tossed out...