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Originally Posted by GerryB
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The third baseman hollered "bear down" at the umpire. Charlie Williams ejected the saintly Steve Garvey for the first and only time in his career for telling him to "bear down." So that ejection was a good one. The guy even admitted he yelled at the umpire from his position.
It sounds like Cliburn has a problem controlling his players, as it was reported that the entire Mud Hens infield converged on the umpire when he issued a warning for hitting batters. The umpire probably shouldn't have issued a warning given the circumstances of the game, but the manager should immediately clear out his players from the argument. Hopefully that is what he did, as that part was not reported.
Once the warning was given, the umpire really had no other choice but to eject on the next hit batter, so that ejection was clean too. The only question remaining is whether anybody was ever really throwing at hitters intentionally to start with.