Asdrubal Cabrera got tossed after his third at-bat, and the ejection looked rushed. He came into the game slumping hard, hitting just .121 over his last nine games, and that frustration showed. In his first two at-bats, the umpire didn’t make any bad calls. Cabrera did a decent job adjusting to breaking pitches, fouled a few off, and worked into counts, but he got beat with fastballs both times. By the third at-bat, things got tense. The first three pitches were clean—two balls, one strike. Then the umpire ruled that Cabrera swung at a borderline pitch. Cabrera didn’t like it and let the ump know. What followed sparked the ejection.
Cabrera headed to the dugout, checked the replay, and came back chirping. That was enough for the ump to toss him immediately. Rangers manager Chris Woodward stepped in, arguing that the ejection was too fast and that Cabrera didn’t say or do anything extreme. He claimed there was only one vague warning before the ejection, and that Cabrera had already started walking away when things escalated. Cabrera lost it—threw his batting gloves and unloaded his anger on the way out. The crew noticed but didn’t back off. Woodward kept arguing that the warning-to-ejection sequence felt too abrupt, and the moment seemed to hit a boiling point without much provocation.