Not all baseball ejections are created equal. During Thursday’s game between the Nationals and Diamondbacks, Washington manager Dave Martinez made the most of his run-in with home plate umpire Doug Eddings.
And the best part of all? Microphones from the game’s broadcast captured nearly the entire very-NSFW exchange.
With one out in the top of the fifth inning, Eddings called Jake Irvin’s first pitch ball to Arizona’s Carson Kelly a ball. The call drew some critical shouts from the Nationals dugout, which immediately drew the ire of Eddings, who removed his mask to shout back. Though Martinez insisted that the yelling did not come from him, that did nothing to simmer the tension that had clearly been building for some time.
