1st inning Ejection BR slams helmet

[Jglopez7]

Top of 1st inning runners on 3rd and 2nd. Slow roller hit to f4, he checks the runners and throws to 1st. Ball beat him by half a step, i sell the call and call him out. Runner turns at me and slams his helmet. It was almost a Clint Fagan momemt when he ejected Molina. Player was ejected. His coach didn't argue and agreed with the ejection. First player ejection in 3 years!

[Lala]

I'll preface this by saying that I totally agree with your ejection, no way can a player do that and get away with it.

That being said, when I was coaching a few years ago I had a player do this and the umpire immediately looked at me and I ran over from the 3rd base coaches box and removed him from the game (and sat him the second game of the DH). I appreciated the fact that the ejection wasn't immediate. He talked to me between innings and said had I not immediately ran over he would have ejected him.

My question, is this an automatic ejection for all of you or do you wait briefly to see how coach responds?

[Jglopez7]

I didn't give a MLB Show ejection. First base yelled at him to pick up his helmet and sit on the bench. Head coach approached me and apologized. I informed him his player has been ejected from the game. No issues no audience was made.

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[James Walker]

Depends... if he is throwing equipment in protest of a call I just made, its an automatic ejection.

 

On the other hand, depending on age, if the equipment is thrown because he is upset/disappointed in himself he might get to stay if a coach gets there pretty quick and handles it. 

[Dash Riprock]

Stan Musial game - current and former college players and pro wannabes (delirious, for the most part).  Wise guy lefty cleanup hitter.  I ring up a 2-1 curveball in the upper part of the zone.  He doesn't say anything but I know he is steaming mad.  Then he looks at one right down the c@ck.  As he is walking away he says to me:  "You f@*ked up that whole at-bat,"  I said:  "I didn't look at strike three down the middle, YOU did."  He went into the dugout, splintered his bat against the concrete wall, then grabbed a practice bat and started bashing that against the wall.  It turns out it was a rather expensive practice bat that he did not own.  There is no way I'm ejecting that entertainment.  At least not yet.

[ricka56]

Stan Musial game - current and former college players and pro wannabes (delirious, for the most part).  Wise guy lefty cleanup hitter.  I ring up a 2-1 curveball in the upper part of the zone.  He doesn't say anything but I know he is steaming mad.  Then he looks at one right down the c@ck.  As he is walking away he says to me:  "You f@*ked up that whole at-bat,"  I said:  "I didn't look at strike three down the middle, YOU did."  He went into the dugout, splintered his bat against the concrete wall, then grabbed a practice bat and started bashing that against the wall.  It turns out it was a rather expensive practice bat that he did not own.  There is no way I'm ejecting that entertainment.  At least not yet.

B: you've got to be $#!++!ng me?

U: I wouldn't $#!+ you, you're my favorite turd.

[Don]

Bryce Harper was ejected last year for same thing.  It is automatic.

 

4 or 5 years ago I had the leadoff hitter for the home team in the 1st inning draw a line in the dirt past the plate after I rang him up for strike 3.  The HC came running down the 3b line from his box hollering "please let me take care of this", so I did.

[TStokes97]

I'll preface this by saying that I totally agree with your ejection, no way can a player do that and get away with it.

That being said, when I was coaching a few years ago I had a player do this and the umpire immediately looked at me and I ran over from the 3rd base coaches box and removed him from the game (and sat him the second game of the DH). I appreciated the fact that the ejection wasn't immediate. He talked to me between innings and said had I not immediately ran over he would have ejected him.

My question, is this an automatic ejection for all of you or do you wait briefly to see how coach responds?

I see it I toss um, I don't care what the coach does I am the enforcer on that field not him

[LRZ]

First thing you learn in law school is the answer to every question is "It depends." I'm a firm believer in situational responses and dislike automatic anything, generally. Works for me.

[lawump]

I heard that same line my first month of law school, too.  However, for this situation, I prefer what my 11th grade English teacher told us the very first day of class, "Depends are undergarments."  In other words, do not answer a question in her class with "depends". 

 

To wit, each and every time in my career (MiLB, NCAA, AL, FED) that a player has spiked a cap, helmet, glove and/or bat in disgust/objection to a judgment call, I have tossed them.  I haven't missed one yet.  I tossed three batters in the New York-Penn League in my first year in MiLB who all did the same thing: 3-2 count, pitch came in, they started running to first base before I had even made (vocalized) my call, I called, "strike three," they then spiked their helmets.  See ya!

 

My only ejection this year (so far) involved a head coach who spiked his line-up card holder in disgust at a call...he was gone before it came back down to the ground after it bounced off the grass.

 

This is as automatic as a game participant saying, "you're the worst F**king umpire of all time."