New York Mets owner Steve Cohen held a press conference on Wednesday as he hoped to address the frustrations about the team’s dreadful season thus far. But when it came time to actually play the game on Wednesday, it was more of the same.
Seriously, nothing seems to be going right for the Mets, and a 5-2 loss to the Brewers was another example of that.
With Joey Wiemer up in the eighth inning with two on and two outs, a high-and-inside sinker from Adam Ottavino caught Wiemer right on the hand. It looked in real time that Wiemer swung through the contact to his hand, and replays confirmed that. It was swing — like, a full swing.
Buck Showalter has been ejected after arguing that Joey Weimer swung on a hit by pitch pic.twitter.com/OTF5n0Gyb6
— SNY (@SNYtv) June 29, 2023
First base umpire Ron Kulpa, however, incorrectly ruled that Wiemer held up his swing, so he was awarded first base instead of a painful strike. Mets manager Buck Showalter was already frustrated about the call. But when Christian Yelich hit a two-run single three pitches later, Showalter lost it.
He came out to argue the call with Kulpa and was subsequently ejected. It was his second ejection in four days as the season continued to go off the rails for the Mets.
After the game, Showalter said that he was surprised how both the home plate umpire Carlos Torres and Kulpa at first base missed the call.
MLB fans echoed that sentiment: It was a terrible missed call. But it was the exact kind of thing that would happen to the struggling Mets.
This was how Twitter reacted
Ejected on almost the exact same call within minutes of Bob Melvin’s ejection. Bring in the robot umpires. https://t.co/eYPEe0ggIM
— Janelle Lafond (@janellelafondtv) June 29, 2023
No, Buck Showalter got ejected after waiting for the next batter to drive in two runs https://t.co/K3e5eAkQO4
— Vinny Simone (@VTSimone) June 29, 2023
No, he got ejected 10 minutes after this swing. What a joke https://t.co/WJXixUett4
— Mark Lyman (@MarkLyman16) June 29, 2023
Mlb owes Mets an explanation. This is clear as day https://t.co/Ywz9YpAUuc
— Joe Sichel (@iSichel) June 29, 2023
glad i finally have the video. this is not even a check swing. this is a FULL SWING. there’s no debate here. https://t.co/0dsiqPszHw
— Live Bet Mike (@LiveBetMike) June 29, 2023
He's not having a great week. It's only Wednesday. https://t.co/dnA44pauzV
— kyle joseph fan Hof 💅🏻⚾️ (@LaurHof11) June 29, 2023
What an awful, awful call. https://t.co/AftQGINpAM
— Sam Neumann (@Sam_Neumann_) June 29, 2023
Steve Cohen: Buck Showalter won't be fired this year no matter what.
Buck: Challenge accepted! https://t.co/2HcVru6cl3
— Rob Goldberg (@TheRobGoldberg) June 29, 2023
Baseball historians are gonna be talking about the Mets in June 2023 for decades https://t.co/3n4ojObUOW
— Joe Andress (@J_Andress29) June 29, 2023
Sad it took being back 400 games to show some emotion but here we are https://t.co/15f7EjocuZ
— Matt (@ImGriz_) June 29, 2023
In what universe is this not a swing? https://t.co/Av1dqJKHra
— Timothy HJ Nerozzi 庭夢 (@TimothyNerozzi) June 29, 2023
He swung. Can’t even get the umps to help us out of this slump. https://t.co/I5NlD8bgjI
— Jesse Campbell (@n_jcamp) June 29, 2023
