We’ve seen MLB umps do a lot of weird/bad things this season and that continued Monday night in Cleveland when Guardians manager Terry Francona and Angels manager Phil Nevin were both were ejected after one play in the seventh inning.
This was all pretty wild. Francona started things off by getting the boot after he argued with home plate ump Ron Kulpa after Francona thought Andrés Giménez was hit by a pitch. The Guardians manager came out of the dugout, said a bunch of bad words to Kulpa and was shown the door.
After that argument took place, Nevin got upset when the umps wouldn’t let his pitcher, Ryan Tepera, take a few warmup pitches after the long delay. Nevin let his feelings be known and then he was tossed, too.
Let’s look at the ejections.
Terry Francona and Phil Nevin were BOTH tossed from the game in the 7th inning
Francona arguing a HBP and Nevin arguing to let his pitcher get some warm up in
Chaos has erupted in Cleveland pic.twitter.com/QYpR7PYVsQ
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) September 13, 2022
Francona got in a lot of F-bombs:
Terry Francona definitely set the record for most “F—k you’s” in an ejection 😂pic.twitter.com/136MRgwJu9
— Jordan Moore (@iJordanMoore) September 13, 2022
Here’s the ump not allowing a warmup pitch:
— Welcome to the Ump Show (@umpjob) September 13, 2022
Here’s the whole sequence:
Not a single pitch was thrown between the ejections of managers Terry Francona and Phil Nevin.
— BetterThanVegas (@btvbets) September 13, 2022
Amazing.
Twitter had reactions.
Thank you for your service Ron Kulpa🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 #UmpShow #WeCameToWatchYou https://t.co/ZbmGwknXUF
— Gaba2024 #RobsMob (@RealGaba1) September 13, 2022
electric factory in cleveland https://t.co/uPhBetYImQ
— Stanley Stanislavsky (@StantheMan569) September 13, 2022
YOU’RE OUTTA HERE! AND YOU’RE OUTTA HERE! AND YOU’RE OUTTA HERE! AND YOU’RE OUTTA HERE! https://t.co/dVj2n5d8b1 pic.twitter.com/OK59D0MaaH
— George Slater (@JorgeGuapo22) September 13, 2022
Why I love baseball ⚾️ https://t.co/nK0Ts51c7V
— iamtheles 🐢 (@iamdalowereast) September 13, 2022
When it comes to the worst umpires, Angel Hernandez and C.B. Bucknor get a lot of press. But I really feel like its time that Ron Kulpa got his due. https://t.co/yUjFg1wovw
— Ed Reese (@edreese) September 13, 2022
This is incredible. I wonder if it’s a first. Two separate reasons but back to back. https://t.co/8YnnRRg4yl
— 🌹🌹CityUte 🌹🌹 (@bryanth2o) September 13, 2022
LMAOO What in the world 😂 https://t.co/cSdM28DN8t
— Danie…doesn’t want to close the pool 😭 (@danie__k) September 13, 2022
Absolute madness https://t.co/eaJLsQ4GV5
— Austin Long (@coachlongfungos) September 13, 2022
Why did I laugh so hard!? https://t.co/fECudXS52a
— Steve (@ItzSteveSpenc) September 13, 2022
This was awesome https://t.co/cpNHCwXqLc
— Mikey (@mccarthex) September 13, 2022
