Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents.
This is the language of umpires. A situation is a flash of irritation, a simmering temper, a plea for reconsideration. (Think of throwing a helmet.) An incident is a fight, an ejection, a rules violation. (Think of throwing a punch.) Yet there can be surprisingly little space between them. A brief moment of venting under one umpire can become a total explosion under another. Which is why situation management has its own dedicated section of the curriculum at MLB Umpire Prospect Development Camp.
