MLB Ejection 058 - Nic Lentz (2; Taylor Walls)

[Lindsay]

HP Umpire Nic Lentz ejected Rays SS Taylor Walls (strike one call; QOCY) in the top of the 9th inning of the #Rays-#Astros game. With one out and none on, Rays batter Walls took a 0-0 slider from Astros pitcher Josh Hader for a called first strike. Replays indicate the pitch was located over the outer edge of home plate and at the hollow beneath the knee (px 0.73, pz 1.45 [sz_bot 1.53 / RAD 1.41]), the call was correct.* At the time of the ejection, the Astros were leading, 1-0. The Astros ultimately won the contest, 1-0.

 

This is Nic Lentz (59)'s 2nd ejection of 2025.

*This pitch was located 1.68 vertical inches from being deemed incorrect.

This is the 58th ejection report of the 2025 MLB regular season.

This is the 17th player ejection of 2025. Ejection Tally: 30 Managers, 11 Coaches, 17 Players.This is Tampa Bay's 3rd ejection of 2025, 4th in the AL East (BAL, NYY, TB, TOR 3; BOS 2).

This is Taylor Walls' first career MLB ejection.

This is Nic Lentz's 2nd ejection of 2025, 1st since April 7 (Rocco Baldelli; QOC = Y [Pitch Clock]).

Wrap: Tampa Bay Rays vs Houston Astros, 6/1/25 | Video as follows:

Alternate Link: Walls starts June off with ejection for tapping his helmet in non-ABS MLB game

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and just like we all have things we do, like scratching our buttocks, pulling on our batting gloves, twirling our hair etc. etc., mlb will have to address the going to the helmet dilemma when they go to challenges for when players try to send subliminal messages about their disapproval (aka, i was just adjusting my helmet) like now, if they draw a line with the bat to show up the umpire. how long after the 2 second challenge can you start bopping your helmet (do we really want another keeping time situation), before you are really sending that message that says you blew the pitch, but the reason i did not ask within 2 seconds is because our team cannot use the signal in the first 4 innings, but i wanted you to get the point subliminally, that i will do it in the 5th because you blew the call and i wanted to let you know. ps-- if anyone asks, i was just adjusting my helmet and nay nay na nay nay, you will look like a jerk if you dump me. yea i did it intentionally, designed and premeditated, absolutely, but once again you will be the one dinged for being a jerk not me, and they will be calling for your firing in the press and social media, not mine. are you a mind reader if you accuse me? don't you like that. i know my rights and ways to make you look bad, and i will use every method possible to make you look bad, fair or unfair, like in officer and a gentleman, and make me, the player, look like the weak and defenseless player against the aggressive, and/or egotistical umpire that thinks everyone in the park came to see them. the game is about the players, not the umpires, so you should be seen and never heard and if they know who you are at the end of the game, you should be fired, no matter what we as players said or did to you, rabbitt ears. once again, seen but not heard for every game of your life. embrace it. just a little poem of mind reading above.