Monday, May 23, 2016

Brad Ausmus was not happy about this third strike call, and his hoodie was one of the casualties

The Detroit Tigers had been struggling. Being swept in a three game series against the Washington Nationals (the presumptive favorite to represent the National League in the World Series), will do that to a baseball team. They were struggling to score runs and had not fared much better in the pitching department. So you could say the mood at Comerica Park was tense, to say the least. But what happened next was maybe the most entertaining thing to happen during the Detroit Tigers season to that point.

Oh, and not to mention the Tigers were in the midst of blowing an 8 run lead against the last placed team in the division.

The manager (for now) of the team, Brad Ausmus, was so angry about a called third strike against Tigers third baseman Nick Castellanos. The resulting argument with home-plate umpire Doug Eddings was one of the best ejections on a baseball field I've ever seen. It concluded with Ausmus taking off his MLB issued Detroit Tigers hoodie and adding a few choice words for Eddings.



You might say that Ausmus blew a gasket and you would be 100% right in this assessment. Lets just remember that managers/coaches are people to.

Video courtesy: Reilly Raymond
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 24, 2016 at 12:13 PM

    Gah! I saw this. Insane!

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  2. UnknownJune 4, 2016 at 8:21 PM

    I have always wondered if baseball coaches arguing with umpires was just to get their team fired up. Maybe the coaches are trying to get in the umpire's head to sway the next close call in their favor.

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