Back in April, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected during a bizarre Monday afternoon game against the Oakland Athletics in the Bronx. It seems as if the random 1 p.m. start time had everyone off balance.
Because Boone was erroneously sent to the showers. Home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt mistook a fan yelling in the front row for Boone and ejected the Yankees’ manager despite pleas from the rest of the coaching staff. Wendelstedt didn’t care, then in classic fashion put the Yankees on blast after the game.
On Tuesday night, baseball fans were nearly given the sequel to Boone’s fan ejection when Miami Marlins manager Skip Schumaker was briefly tossed from the game for what the team’s bench coach said to home plate umpire Ben May.
Schumaker, the Marlins coaching staff, and the umpiring crew convened and cleared things up before May reversed the ruling. Schumaker returned to the dugout and order was restored.
Either May is an actual amenable guy, or he didn’t want to deal with the ire of fans and negative media attention for being the second umpire to do this as the league-wide power trip continues.
