Anyone who has spent any amount of time around Dodgers manager Dave Roberts knows that he rarely gets angry, especially towards umpires. In fact, he often goes out of his way to campaign in their favor.

Dave Roberts was extremely angry on Friday night – especially towards the umpires – after his team’s 3-2 loss in extra innings to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium, and with good cause.

To put it bluntly, not only did home plate umpire Ramon De Jesus blow the initial call when a pitch thrown by Dbacks right-hander Archie Bradley hit Dodgers center fielder A.J. Pollock on the wrist that De Jesus said hit the knob of the bat and was then caught by Dbacks catcher Carson Kelly, the video review umpires in New York confirmed the blown call, the result of which changed the outcome of the game.

Here’s what Roberts had to say about De Jesus’ initial blown call and the subsequent blown call by replay official:

“Typically I’m very political with umpiring, but they missed it, I mean that’s just the fact,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts after the game. “You have a system in place to get it right and it was clearly wrong, and that impacted the game.

“Very rarely do I say that a play impacts a game, but first and second base nobody out versus first base with one out changed the complexion of that inning, clearly. And anyone who knows the game understands that.

“When a ball hits a guy’s wrist and pops up and replay says that it was off the knob, where the player reacts and a ball off the knob is not going to react that way. So, to not have the intent or the conviction to get the right call, they impacted the game; so that’s one part of it.

“And then you got a guy trying to get off the field, trying to feel his wrist, make sure things are all still in place, and then you got a pitcher shooing our guy off, where A.J. does nothing but play the game the right way. So if there’s a player that takes more time than a pitcher thinks, A.J.’s not that guy.

“So our guys took offense to that. After you get the save, you finish the game and then you look in our dugout and pop off. Unnecessary.”

As for Pollock, he was equally angry with the blown call, especially by the replay officials in New York:

“In the game they should have some cameras at home [plate]. They didn’t get it. I don’t know how they don’t get that, they didn’t.

“Honestly, when you get smoked in the wrist, I didn’t get any knob or anything, it was all wrist, you have sort of a little bit of faith in New York that they’re going to see that, and I don’t know how they didn’t.

“I’m not really excited about their call, I’m not going to sprint off and be all giggly, and [Dback closer Archie Bradley] didn’t like that and tough … whatever.”

And here’s what Dodgers unofficial team captain Justin Turner had to say about Bradley’s childish behavior:

“Just hit a guy on the wrist and he’s yelling at him to get off the field. Shut your mouth and get on the mound and pitch. Then, he closes the game and stares in the dugout. Like, worry about your guys, don’t worry about us.”

Strap in and hang on Dodger fans, this was only game-1 of a three-game series against the snakes … with the same umpiring crew for all three games.

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