No Brainer?

[mcrowder]

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.

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).

in FED calls for ejection for any throwing of equipment in disgust, whether at himself or the umpire's call.

Valid point - but he didn't say which set. I assumed OBR.

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.

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.

If this was in a youth ball game, I would eject him just for safety reasons, since his actions were potentially dangerous.

Me too - but probably not as BU.