[greymule]

I feel for the poor guy. Don't know how he could eject the batter, though, unless he thought the kid hit him on purpose.

One ump around here thought he was safe when, between innings of a LL game, he went over to the 3B dugout to talk to a coach. However, the pitcher threw a warmup pitch at least 45 degrees off the plate and beaned the guy. Opened a cut, too, but a nurse in attendance cleaned and bandaged the wound, and he did the rest of the game. What was really odd was how the kid got so much steam on a pitch that pretty much went sideways, even though he seemed to step and throw toward the plate.