Anthony Rizzo was kicked out of his home for arguing Stanton should have had an attack against him

Every bad call for one team is a great call for the opposing team. That’s why fans always get annoyed when referees say bad things about their team, but keep quiet when the same thing happens to the opposition. Players act the same way. That’s what made Anthony Rizzo’s knock-out against Baltimore on Thursday all the more confusing.

The Yankees’ first base player was ejected in the eighth inning after arguing that his teammate should have had an attack against him in the one-turn game. Huh?

Let’s create the stage. Going into the eighth round, the Yankees led 6-5. Rizzo won 3 of the day with doubles, singles and two runs scored. It’s been a pretty steady day, and seeing how he leads the way in the round, Rizzo knows he has to step up to give his team the best chance of winning. They haven’t lost a game all year having scored 5 or more runs, and he doesn’t want that to start now.

The first throw Rizzo sees is a slider below the strike zone. Does not matter. Umpire Manny Gonzalez Call it a strike. The second pitch is a change, below the area again. And again, the umpire called it a strike. The score should have been 2-0, but 0-2 instead. Then, Rizzo launched two pitches on an inside cutter. He has every right to be provoked, but he must trust his teammates to support him.

The next one is Giancarlo Stanton. The first pitch, the machine cuts to low. Ball one. If anything, Rizzo should be delighted! Maybe Gonzalez realized he was wrong with the calls against Rizzo and adjusted for Stanton. But not. Rizzo called out from within the dugout, “It’s the same yard!” implied that there should have been a strike against Stanton if the referee wanted to maintain consistency.

The ump athlete wasted no time knocking out the Yankees slugger, who stormed off the dugout with his manager Aaron Boone. Rizzo nodded towards Gonzalez for a short while before going to the bathroom. Just think about that. Rizzo was so upset that previous pitches were called shots, so much so that when his teammate faced a similar surface called a ball, he couldn’t help but pounce on the referee’s assessment. . It wasn’t a smart move, and as much as Rizzo begged “I’m better than that! You know me better than that! “He wasn’t there at the time.

First hitter will defend his actions after the match saying, “If [what I did] ensure an ejection, then we should just keep our mouth shut because we should be ejected left and right. ” He explained that he believes the referee only called the second call an attack ‘despite… just to prove that that’s his attacking zone. That’s where I got really frustrated. ”

I understand where Rizzo is coming from, and I think both sides are at fault. First, the umpire has indicated his area of ​​attack after the first throw. Rizzo is a professional. He should be able to make mid-range adjustments, so he shouldn’t feel “frustrated” when the next throw arrives at the same place and is called an attack again. Even if the referee called it a strike “despite,” At least he was consistent. In the video above, the reporter said that the umpire had given that low score that made the game go both ways, and Rizzo agreed to that. Second, he should have just kept quiet. I understand that’s annoying, but it’s a ball… with your teammates… in a one-turn game… in the eighth inning. Just take the gift and let it go. Be grateful that your teammate finally got a call you didn’t get.

With that said, Rizzo shouldn’t have been disqualified. That referee must have really thin skin to consider it an offense can be ejected. He doesn’t curse. He doesn’t raise his voice too much. All he did was ask the umpire to be consistent, but that seemed like too much for the fragile ego of the blue.

This is the third time Rizzo has been sent off in his career. He was always a class act on the pitch and was never one to be too loud with the referee. That being said, if there’s ever been time to speak to an official, this is not it. Don’t beg for a call, then get upset when it ends up being made for someone other than yourself. It’s petty, but throwing Rizzo out is justifiably upsetting.