<acronym title='Eject'>EJ</acronym> - Another <acronym title='Catcher'>F2</acronym>/<acronym title='plate umpire'>PU</acronym> issue .....

[Thunderheads]

Discuss!

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=21110313&c_id=mlb

[johnnyg08]

Pitch was down. There had to be some things that led up to this.

There was a call that 1BU got right that was similar to what happened in Colorado yesterday.

[Mr Umpire]

Both pitches appeared very low from this angle. And, I'm sure they both said enough to get EJ.

[Mike Prince]

Not sure it had anything to do with the pitch, something else was brewing here. Announcers said they had earlier issues over a ball exchange (which sounds pretty stupid)

[Lindsay]

Something about Campos just rubbed Pittsburgh the wrong way: "We've had disagreements from the beginning of the series," said Clint Hurdle. "It escalated a lot. We felt we weren't getting a fair shake. There were five or six pitches in the first two innings that we disagreed on. That's a lot."

Yesterday, the Pirates were planning on filing a formal complaint with MLB regarding Campos.

It didn't help that the Pirates think Campos was duped into calling a strikeout against Tabata: Cards catcher Yadier Molina acted like Tabada's two-strike check swing made contact with the ball and Campos bought it, signalling a foul tip: "He got manipulated by a veteran catcher," said Hurdle, "He bought it. I was like, 'C'mon, man. That's not right.'"

Bucs plan protest of strike zone

[UMP45]

First pitch - strike. Second pitch ball - ball. Pittsburgh calling Angel a "CHEATER". F*#K 'em feed 'em fish heads!! :violin:

[Mudder]

Something about Campos just rubbed Pittsburgh the wrong way: "We've had disagreements from the beginning of the series," said Clint Hurdle. "It escalated a lot. We felt we weren't getting a fair shake. There were five or six pitches in the first two innings that we disagreed on. That's a lot."

Yesterday, the Pirates were planning on filing a formal complaint with MLB regarding Campos.

It didn't help that the Pirates think Campos was duped into calling a strikeout against Tabata: Cards catcher Yadier Molina acted like Tabada's two-strike check swing made contact with the ball and Campos bought it, signalling a foul tip: "He got manipulated by a veteran catcher," said Hurdle, "He bought it. I was like, 'C'mon, man. That's not right.'"

Bucs plan protest of strike zone

Is there video of this?

[Lindsay]

Top4, approximately 7:50 into the Condensed Game: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=21115429