The Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 4-3 on Thursday night at Target Field. Detroit took the lead in the top of the 11th inning on a sacrafice fly. Minnesota's Ryan Jeffers led off the bottom half of the inning and got punched out on a foul tip that home plate umpire John Bacon thought Detroit catcher Dillon Dinger caught.
Jeffers thought the ball hit the ground before finding its way into Dinger's mitt. Bacon disagreed and Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli ran out to argue on Jeffers's behalf. Within a few seconds and just two F-bombs he was ejected.
There was no need for a lip reader as microphones clearly picked up Baldelli shouting, "There's no f------ way. You f------ it up."
After he was tossed, Baldelli continued to argue, kicked some dirt and threw his hat before heading back to the dugout and into the locker room.
Rocco Baldelli told the ump “no fucking way, you fucked it up” after the ump ruled that this pitch to Ryan Jeffers didn’t hit the ground
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Baldelli tossed his hat on the field before leaving pic.twitter.com/BIuIky3IaX
Upon review of the slow-motion replay... can you even tell if the call was correct? Dirt kicks up but it kind of looks like he caught it. Baldelli was most certainly going along with his player in this situation. In the end, it doesn't really matter if it was right or wrong. All that really matters is that this was an incredibly worthy ejection.
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