MLB Ejection 196 - Ramon De Jesus (3; Wil Myers)

[Lindsay]

HP Umpire Ramon De Jesus ejected Padres CF Wil Myers (strike two call; QOCY) in the bottom of the 9th inning of the #Cubs-#Padres game. With none out and one on (R2), Myers took a 1-0 fastball from Cubs pitcher Rowan Wick for a called first strike and 1-1 fastball from Wick for a called second...

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[Thunderheads]

There's zero lines drawn in this at bat. His "fingers in the dirt" are next to him, within the right handed batters box ...if he were drawing lines, they'd be on the other side of the plate. Chuck123 is right, ...Myers doesn't wear gloves and picks up dirt all the time....that's all this was. He deserved to get ejected mind you, he just wasn't drawing lines.

[The Man in Blue]

I agree ... it didn’t look like he was drawing lines to me, as that is usually done where the ball is perceived to be, not on the far side of the batter’s box.  But the angry pointing and repeated gesturing on strike 2 ... yep, time for the toss.

I don’t usually jump on the broadcaster-bashing bandwagon ... but that was some homer-level commentary.

Anybody else getting sick of these players whining and throwing temper tantrums over calls that are not even close to being bad?  I’m saying there are missed calls and then there are bad calls.  Most of these aren’t even missed, let alone bad.