Major League Baseball umpire Ángel Hernández announced his retirement Monday, ending an MLB career that began in 1991. He worked two World Series, eight league championship series and three All-Star games despite – according to nearly everyone associated with professional baseball – being perhaps the least accurate umpire who ever called a game.

Here’s a look at some of the times when Hernández, 62, was off his game.

Michael Tucker safe at home (1998)

The Mets and Braves went to extra innings on July 5, 1998, the day before that year’s All-Star break began. In the bottom of the 11th, the Braves’ Michael Tucker tagged up from third on Walt Weiss’ short fly to left field, and the throw to New York catcher Mike Piazza clearly beat Tucker to the plate. But Hernández ruled Tucker safe, giving the Braves the victory and causing various Mets to blow their tops.

Mets closer John Franco earned a three-game suspension after he bumped and directed what the National League dubbed “personal profanities” at Hernández following the call, and Manager Bobby Valentine claimed Tucker came in spikes-high and never touched home plate. During Franco’s appeal of his suspension a couple weeks later, one person involved in the play claimed that Hernández told Piazza on at least two occasions during the game that “we’ve got to move the game along. I’ve got a plane to catch.”

“The most ridiculous call I’ve seen in 10 years of professional baseball and 20 years of baseball, period. I’m completely flabbergasted, dumbfounded. I’m in shock . . . I don’t know what to say. Pathetic,” was Piazza’s summary immediately after the game.

Hernández gets into it with … Steve McMichael (2001)

Chicago Bears legend Steve McMichael was at Wrigley Field to sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch of a Cubs-Rockies game in 2001. Before belting out the song, McMichael told the home fans that he would “have some speaks with that home-plate umpire after the game,” an apparent reference to Hernández calling Cubs infielder Ron Coomer out at the plate an inning earlier.

Hernández was visibly upset at McMichael’s reference, and crew chief Randy Marsh threatened to stop the game unless the former NFL player known as “Mongo” was ejected from the ballpark. Andy MacPhail, then the Cubs’ General Manager, would later apologize to the umpires for the incident.

The double that wasn’t (2013)

During an Oakland-Cleveland game in 2013, a ball hit by the Athletics’ Adam Rosales clearly looked to have struck a railing above the left-center wall at Progressive Field. But instead of ruling the play a tying home run after looking at video of the play, Hernández and the other umpires called it a double, and Oakland would go on to lose the game, 4-3.

A day later, MLB acknowledged that an “improper call” had been made but ruled that it could not reverse it. Hernández, meanwhile, was confident in his decision.

“It wasn’t evident on the TV we had it was a home run,” Hernández said. “I don’t know what kind of replay you had, but you can’t reverse a call unless there is 100 percent evidence, and there wasn’t 100 percent evidence.”

Hernández goes .750 in Sox-Yanks ALDS (2018)

Hernández’s worst single-game performance came on one of its biggest stages, a 2018 American League Division Series matchup between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Before four innings could be completed, video replay had overturned three of Hernández’s calls at first base (and another of his calls went to replay but was upheld).

Though it had happened five times previously in a regular-season game, it was the first time an umpire had three calls overturned in one postseason game. And after the Yankees were eliminated the next night with Hernández behind the plate, New York pitcher CC Sabathia offered his unfiltered take on the umpire.

“He shouldn’t be anywhere near a playoff game,” Sabathia said. “He’s bad. I don’t understand why he is doing these games.

“He’s always bad. He’s a bad umpire.”

So many missed strike calls (1991-2024)

Hernández ejected Astros Manager A.J. Hinch after one pitch in the bottom of the first inning of a 2019 spring training game. After the game, Hinch said Hernández had admitted to him that he gets about four ball/strike calls wrong per game, but a study released by Boston University later that year found that his almost missed-calls rate over his career was about five times higher (about 2.2 missed calls per inning, which – to be fair – wasn’t even in the bottom 10 among MLB umpires in the study).

Still, Hernández’s lousy command of the strike zone has become the stuff of legends.