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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
What if he was disgusted with the umpire's call of strike 2 that put him in a hole, forcing him to protect the plate on strike 3? Maybe he wasn't angry with himself after all.
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Maybe maybe maybe, what if, what if, what if... If I'm 100 feet away and my partner's right there, I'm not playing maybe what if and tossing him. And I think that if you are, you are wrong in doing so (even if it turns out in retrospect that your partner was just being lazy and didn't have a valid reason for not tossing him).
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in FED calls for ejection for any throwing of equipment in disgust, whether at himself or the umpire's call.
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Valid point - but he didn't say which set. I assumed OBR.
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As far as OBR goes, the interpretation from the MLBUM includes ejection as one of the penalties for flagrant throwing of equipment, if in disgust with an umpire's call.
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Yes, but from 100 feet away I can't see making that leap. In fact, I'd assume it was in disgust at missing the ball, not some previous umpire-related disgust.
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If this was in a youth ball game, I would eject him just for safety reasons, since his actions were potentially dangerous.
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Me too - but probably not as BU.