I think Votto flips the bat like that every time he walks

Hunter Strickland on the mound after Joey Votto takes offense to nearly getting hit? Yeah, that's not a potential problem.

That bat flip wasn’t odd, that is quite typical after a walk to send the bat to the dugout. I don’t think Vatto was causing an issue until the pitcher started yelling at him

I am not a Votto fan, but to say he "put on a show"? That's insane.

Can we just acknowledge the comedic genius of the Reds’ audio room playing “Let It Go” while Ross was out arguing?

Votto flips the bat like that when he walks. Have they not played against him for 15 years now? Lmao

Votto just tossed the bat... If you're gunna be pissed at that after a 4 pitch walk, go have a seat. That's on you. The fact that the Cubs, and their broadcast, both don't see the situational awareness of the game, and also bring in complete bias about Votto when he did nothing wrong, is laughable.

What type of show? Strickland has a long history of a short fuse

I'm gonna have to add "Let It Go" to my baseball music lineup...

Joey votto walked.

Let's be honest, that crew was 3s and 4s because it's the Cubs and Reds. If teams with a contending shot were playing I'm sure some changes would have been made.

Patrick Wisdom...much respect. A 98 mph off of the forearm is, to be subtle, miserable!

What a joke comment by the cubs announcer about votto…idk if Strickland decided to do it on purpose but votto did what he does on almost every home walk (the “bat flip”) and then Ross after the game to say votto walked towards wick when he walked to first and that clearly didn’t happen is a bad look as well

did you say "votto was the first player hit in the game"? was he hit?

It's the Reds. Don't think they are not stupid enough to bring the tying run to the plate in the 9th.

I saw a few bits and pieces of this ejection 😂 I like when Cubs Reds hauling ass each other 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

This is the same situation in the Toronto/NYY game where the crew ran 3 Jays except the complete opposite actions of the Umpire crew.

Does the vid title say Votto got hit? ** edit - the guys and gals at CCS added the BB. Atta kids! **

Someone messed up here, @CloseCallSports

Votto put on a show? RIP baseball. its 2022, grow up

Classic hunter strickland

Votto wasn’t hit by anything what are you talking about?

Dang votto owned rowan wick when they were fighting Votto definitely owned wick in trash talking

These managers need to stop trying to be Billy Martin. The only thing they should say is, “Can you please give me a rule interpretation in that?” Or if he wanted to ask why they didn’t confer, he could have used the same tone as he did after the game. They just look like fools and are an embarrassment to the game.

Ross is just mad that his team is terrible 🤣

Love the geek speak at the end that translates to this crew is garbage

Very well put!!!👉💯👈💜💜💜

Situation be damned, Strickland probably is considering hitting a batter whenever he's in the game, since he's just that kind of guy.

Well David Ross learned from the best Bobby Cox…. lol

Can't wait to see Jomboy do this!

That's strange indeed... I remember I also saw Manny Gonzales with this crew. And Dan Merzel is a call-up, right?

Not a Reds fan - but it looked to me like Votto just put his head down and was jogging to 1st base after taking ball 4. He only looked up when the Cubs' pitcher started talking to him.

I would’ve liked to see the plate umpire be the one to argue with Ross since he was the one who threw him out. It is a bad look when other umpire comes charging in full speed and starts going at the manager when he wasn’t even involved. Only time you need to intervene is if ejecting umpire is being surrounded outnumbered with multiple team members yelling (which rarely happens anymore) or if the umpire is being physically attacked. Other than that, let the ejecting umpire handle it on his own.

I think my favorite part of this whole thing, is the DJ playing "Let It Go", knowing full well that if it was the other way around and David Bell came out to argue what Ross did and got ejected, the DJ and fans wouldn't be telling Bell to "Let It Go".

hmm Joey Votto got hit by a pitch huh....

Y'all are over thinking it. Period.

It’s pretty cool how you explain some of the intricacies of the officiating. Thanks

What’s even the big the deal here? Votto took his base and the cubs pitcher cried about, and then a cub got hit. Whatever let’s go Bucs

There should of been warnings after the Cubs batter was hit. That way the umps are covered in the way they acknowledge in seeing a potential problem

Their Umps It is their jobs to know the rules. It's not like their truck drivers or house painters where you have to have some skill.

Baseball has become a me, myself, and I game. A player can't even throw his bat down now a days without someone taking offence. Seems like every player has a chip on his shoulder. Wants his fifteen minutes of fame one way or another.

You pointed out how the house dj was playing Let It Go and Hit The Road Jack. I'm curious, can't that be a factor in cases of adding fuel to the fire? Players can get ejected for being confrontational, or even passive-aggeressive sometimes, is that not the same thing?

Umps blew it.

Oh come on. The one Cubs game that I accidentally fall asleep and sleep through is the one with all the action.

Votto flipped his bat because he was upset over the first pitch that nearly beaned him in the shoulder. He never said anything bad to the pitcher also. He was just unhappy with the first pitch that nearly beaned him.

that pitch had a bunch of tailing movement. Mix that with the fact you are bringing the tying run to the plate... Highly doubtful it's intentional... could it be? People do crazy things so it always could be. But I highly doubt it... Hell Ross, he did you a favor.. he gave your guy a free base when he could least afford it and when it's advantageous to you... smile and hope your next hitters make use of it...

Votto didn't even need to take his bat up to the plate as Wisdom was afraid to pitch to him.

so the umps had no real crew chief so there was no ump discussion what to do..and players ran their..I read where the plate ump told them enough just play..

JOMBOY!!!!!!! I need the lips!

Cubs 1000% percent wrong on this one. Votto didn't do a damned thing. (I'm not a fan of either team.)

Idina Menzel makes a cameo appearance. XD

The provinces are only 4,000 km apart. 😊

This is just my Opinion but that was a quick hook. Let the Manager blow off some steam first.

Wait a minute how TF did votto hit a triple???? Hes slow as hell

Maybe they have too many chiefs.

It’s like the umps where scared to get involved. Maybe the front office is finally sending them a message get it together however don’t do nothing dude.

Tonight’s game is going to be a good one. If you like retaliation and bad judgement. The umps should just warn both benches before the game even starts.

Need to just replace all umps I’m so sick of their incompetence .

i’d like to see Jomboy Media jump into this vid so he can read lips from what Votto & Wick said to each other and David Ross getting ejected

One of the reds is going to get drilled tonight and unfortunately it’s going to be bc of the lack of action by the umpires in this one

Our ass is not in the jackpot!

Why was Wick so upset about Votto, I don't get it.

Ross is a bum! How in the heck did the Cubs ever sign him on as a manager, let alone an extension. Give him his walking papers.

Jim Ross should be happy he has another runner on.

…OK, so Ross has a point with the umpires not conversing over the degree of intent in this scenario, and as long as I’ve watched the game of baseball, I read the umpires’ names like, “Who TF are these people? How is someone a crew chief whose name I’ve rarely seen work a game before?” MY problem with this is, Wednesday night’s game was Game 3 of 4 in this series…I know they worked last night, but I’m unsure if they had Game 1…Both managers KNOW this crew and are aware that the crew chief isn’t a 1 or 2, so if an issue like this arose (and it did), why is Ross so surprised/incensed at how they handled this? Who DOESN’T know Hunter Strickland has had blowups with players who can turn around his fastball if he doesn’t spot it with consistency? Who DOESN’T know he’s a veteran goon who protects his teammates (in this case, Joey Votto who, let’s not forget, drove in three of the four runs they scored)? Rowan Wick didn’t throw with intent; the deficit was two late in the game and he didn’t wanna put anyone on base to give his team a chance to win next time up. Bottom line: If the umpires at least convened before the decision was made to toss Ross after Wisdom was hit, he wouldn’t have had an issue. They didn’t, he was…and today, with two hard throwing starters (Greene more than Steele), and an overcast mid-70s day in the air, and this same crew in place, this one’s gonna get madd ugly quickly if some towers get buzzed often.

David Ross acts like he never played the game. What's his beef exactly? The tying run comes to the plate! You need that base runner. Your pitcher started this nonsense, by going high and in to Votto. Votto didn't flip the bat! It was a walk! You flip the bat after a home run. Not a walk.

Man, I’m so glad to see JOEY BARKING AT THAT ISH …. show fight reds!!!!!!!!

Reason or not aside, what amazes me is to see the umpires barking back at managers and players. They heat things up instead of cooling things down

Are these cubs broadcasters, have they been around long?. Have they ever seen another game with votto against any team. He literally throws his bat like that every time he's walked. And for good reason. Once again the cubs are acting like children, with David Ross being the biggest child of all. As a veteran catcher, he knew it wasn't a big deal, just wanted to blurt out nonsense for 5 minutes. Also, the whole entire dynamic changed when happ missed that ball trying to style out. Thats when the childsplay began.

What ever happened to managers and coaches wearing a full uniform? There was at one time a rule that required it. Oh and Ross is a crybaby and a lousy manager.

This is so childish 🙄 Over a flipped bat off a walk 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Man, I long for the days when players flipped the bats and did other antics... and no one got offended or miffed. Pro sports are a freakin joke nowadays.

only 3's or 4's would that be because both teams are horrible?

FTX patch on the umpire 😢

Joey Votto Is a big baby. He thinks he’s something special and he’s not

The best solution is to hire the temp as umpires. That would solve the problem of umpires on vacation.

Cub announcers, who is pulling this shit...lol

Seems like a pretty big over reaction from Votto just throwing his bat away...

New sub! Liked 😀🚪😛😊

If they’re gonna do that shit where they come together and get too involved then be consistent and do it on this obviously intentional HBP. Or just be smart and go back to not getting involved

🙃 Flips (?)

they clearly threw at wisdom coz they didnt like wick moving votto off the plate so u put a guy on in 9th up by two wish the cubs would of come back and rub their nose in it

Lady we don't want to hear your mouth let the guys behind the booth talk.

Cubs...100 years of excuses.

Come on, youre not gonna put tying run at plate in ninth, you should know better Rossy

I couldn't see anything. It's all obscured by awful logos.

Why are major leaguers such babies?

What a bunch of cry baby’s

Ross, over rated coach, over rated commentator, over rated catcher.

Baseball..throw a dam punch,the arguments are stupid..

Cubs and Ross are joke

An easy fix. An obvious plunk of a batter, gets the pitcher ejected. The pitcher is responsible for the ball.

lol This whole thing was ghey I wish I never watched it.

Cubs pitcher started the whole thing over nothing. The pitcher was scared to throw to Votto so he pitched around him and walked him. Then proceeds to be a child about a guy throwing his bat to the side. That’s what got you guy hit. Your punk kid poor sport pitcher acting like a child.

F Votto!

votto did nothing wrong. you look at the racist tim anderson on the white sucks after he hits a home run standing there looking at it ,is more of show off then this. cubs suck and ross is done as far as a manager goes.