There's an old saying in baseball. " The umpire isn't always right, but they're never wrong ".

Used to be that throwing behind the batter was asking to get thrown out. Surprised it took two pitches but I guess the ump wanted to make sure.

1:39 The batter is standing there like "could someone get me some popcorn?"

My fave was when Roger Clemens got thrown out for saying something to the umpire in a playoff game in Oakland. On the replay, you could see him drop an F bomb.

I always want to know what they are saying back and forth, which is why I love Jomboy. For example what was the first pitcher saying, "I didn't mean to throw 2 balls at the batter, I just really really suck at pitching."

Years ago, Texas at Baltimore, the Rangers starter got tossed two or three batters into the game for arguing balls& strikes. Texas put in the pitcher who was supposed to go the next day. The ejected pitcher started the next day.

Never liked Lackey

I will defend the John Lackey decision. Lackey's defense was that he was rusty after being out of action. I'm sorry but, if you are that out of form that you throw behind a batter first pitch then hit them on the second, then you should not be playing. For everyone's safety. Similarly I'll also defend the Strasburg decision. Strasburg hit a batter in the first inning and warnings were issued. He then threw three consecutive wild pitches. Ump saw enough. The commentator said it all "What's a scarier thought is if he didn't mean to do that"

All the balls and strikes calls actually look correct to me. Good on the umps.

Scioscia was actually in not bad shape then. He just continued to get bigger with each passing year.

(03:30 Strasburg) Why would a pitcher "intentionally" bean a batter when it results in a run for the opposing team? ... Umpire demonstrated zero reasoning skills!

Lackey 1000% threw those on purpose Some insight on this... this was his first start of the season after coming off the DL. He had been out since the previous season. There was bad blood between the Rangers and Angels that carried over from the previous year... there was a lot of beanballing back and forth, and it had culminated in a late season brawl in Arlington during the final series between the two. Before this game, there was some jawing done on local media, with Lackey saying he was ready because he wasnt there for the brawl last year, and Kinsler doing some jawing as well on Dallas radio. The umps were well aware of this and were ready. Lackey was rightfully tossed quickly, and so was Scioscia when he came out to argue. Fun fact... Kinsler ended up coming around to score, giving Lackey an ERA of infinity to start the season.

Every ejection for throwing at a batter looked correct to me, except maybe Gausman. Maybe.

Some umps insist that the fans are there to see THEM.

MLB is hard to follow and umpire make it worse. Especially when they walk after players and instigate, even in the nfl a ref barely walks after a player who’s complaining!

Clearly these umpires have money bet on these games

Ryan Sandburg.....I haven't heard that name since the early 90s when I collected baseball cards.

Umps hate pitchers

That's a pretty easy decision. That pitcher is a danger to anyone down range from him.

Umpires are ridiculous, arrogant and unneeded.

Blue now the feelings police. All show.

That first one felt pretty justified to intentionally try to hit the very first batter, but everything after was just nonsense.

Bob Davidson was a pretty terrible umpire but he got that one absolutely right.

Nah...he should have been tossed. If that is the best control he has...send him to AA

Hitting players and arguing balls and strikes. Duh! I think that when Strasborg was thrown out of the game, the run coming in from third has to return to third if the ball is dead. But, in a situation when the batter is thrown behind, the ball is NOT dead, and then it is a wild pitch> So the pitcher could be thrown out and yet still have an opportunity to make a play at the plate. That situation I would LOVE to see. Anyone know the rules on this??

Bob Davidson is a real man. Awesome umpire.

Two things wrong here. If a HIGHLY paid pitcher can’t keep that ball around the plate, he should never be a pitcher. Next, these umpires have WAY too much power. They need to have some higher ups in their departments to come down on them for these quick throw outs. Both are not good. Making baseball look like pee wig leaguers. The umpires as well.

Yeah, you can't do that shit. I mean that was pretty obvious. Bye-bye Lackey

Guccioni shouldn't have thrown brunette out.

Fucking Umpires need to go. And replace with AI already. It works really well in the minors before the MLB.

i love how players and coaches will argue until they're blue in the face before ever admitting they're wrong.

His excuse could be reasonable if pitchers don't have warmups, but they do. You don't miss the plate by 3 ft after you're warm unless you're trying to hit a guy.

I'll throw you out because I CAN'T do my job .

This is why Baseball isn’t worth my time crybaby referees!

I'm shocked that starting pitchers being Thrown Out EARLY in the game!!!