Umpires Eject the Blue Jays for nothing, a breakdown
What Happened
Aaron Judge steps up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning with the game tied 3-3 between the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays had been leading 3-0 earlier, but the Yankees mounted a comeback, capped off by a game-tying home run from Judge's teammate Giancarlo Stanton. As Judge readies himself, the Blue Jays' pitcher, Jimmy Garcia, delivers a series of two-seam fastballs. Judge fouls off a couple, takes a ball, then crushes a hanging slider over the short porch in right field for a walk-off home run. The Yankees dugout erupts in celebration as Judge rounds the bases, having delivered the clutch hit to win the game for his team. However, the drama is far from over. The benches clear after Toronto's Josh Donaldson is hit by a pitch, and the umpires quickly eject both Donaldson and Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo. Catcher Jose Heinemann and Donaldson had apparently been exchanging words earlier, and the umpires determined that the hit-by-pitch was retaliation, leading to the ejections. Yankees manager Aaron Boone also gets ejected for arguing the calls, though the exact reason is unclear. The umpires explain to Boone that they believed the hit-by-pitch was intentional due to the back-and-forth between Donaldson and Heinemann. Boone seems unconvinced, but has no choice but to leave the field. As the ejections continue, the players and coaches from both teams engage in more heated discussions with the umpires. Montoyo returns to the field, still smiling, while his pitching coach screams in protest. The umpires stand firm in their decisions, leaving the Blue Jays frustrated by what they perceive as unfair treatment. The game eventually resumes, with the Yankees clinging to their 4-3 lead. In the top of the 7th, Toronto's Bo Bichette narrowly avoids being hit by a pitch, leading to more arguing and warnings being issued by the umpires. Despite the tense atmosphere, the Yankees are able to hold on for the victory, with Judge's heroics proving to be the difference-maker on the night.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentThe Toronto Blue Jays are in the Bronx and they're beating the Yankees three to nothing.
But the Yankees have runners on the corners and the tying run at the plate in Jean-Claude
Lowe, Michael Cruz, Stanton.
He is ready to hit the pitcher.
Jimmy Garcia is ready to pitch.
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First pitch to Stanton, little two-seamer, strike, next pitch, little two-seamer, ball,
next pitch, little two-seamer, strike, next pitch, little two-seamer, ball, next pitch,
little slider, home run, tie game.
Three to three is the score.
Into the short porch, this guy gets it.
He celebrates.
This kid had the perfect sign and Stanton thought it was a change-up.
I wasn't thinking he was going change-up.
It was his change-up and it fucking, we'll never know what he said.
I can only guess.
First pitch, fastball to the next batter.
Next pitch, oh, hits him.
Now the catcher and the umpire both react immediately because it hits him in the arm.
And an old thing in baseball was like if a guy hits a home run off you, you hit the next
guy because you're a whiny, mad pitcher and you got to remind people that you have the
projectile thing and not others.
But anyway, the umpire, he goes, time.
And the catcher.
He's like, oh, shit, judge.
He's mad.
Fuck you.
I'm gonna get him this top rail and yell at you.
What are you doing?
Get out of here.
Should I jump?
Should I go on the field?
He gets after him.
Fucking bitch.
Judge says, oh, we fucking got you.
Don't worry.
We're taking notes.
Umpire says, judge, simmer down.
Then all the umps go to talk about it.
And judge says, uh, don't worry.
We got that shit too.
And Jen G says, yeah, yeah, yeah, we do.
Now the umps are talking.
And this ump behind the plate ump is talking to the crew chief.
And he's telling him a little story, a little tale, the backstory of what he thinks just
happened.
And, and I'll share that with you here.
I'm going to tell you exactly what I, what they told me so that the reason they thought
that Jimmy Garcia threw at Donaldson was because Heinemann and Donaldson were yelling at each
other in the 15 years.
So we decided, they thought we threw at Donaldson in the tie game in the, after the home run.
Yeah, we had a discussion for sure.
About what?
Baseball.
Was it a contentious discussion or?
Hey, I mean, we're, we're competitive.
We're, we're competing out there.
So I don't know.
It just depends on how you interpret it, I guess.
Josh, was there anything between you and Heinemann before?
I don't even know the guy.
I don't even know.
I didn't even know that was his name.
Never heard of him.
So I combed through the at bats is the only thing I could find.
Donaldson takes a while to step into the box and the catcher's kind of looking at him.
Maybe they're talking, maybe they're not.
But Donaldson did say they did exchange words at, at one point.
And then Donaldson strikes out.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But that's what he says.
And then judge says, throw him out of the game.
And the ump says, you know what?
Maybe we will.
You, you're gone.
What?
What the fuck, bro?
Hey.
And Charlie Montoro is going to run out smiling because he can't believe it.
What's going on?
As he runs out, his pitching coach is not smiling.
He says, calm down, calm down.
Pitching coach starts screaming in the background.
Boom, you're gone.
Yeah, you, you're gone.
Get out of here.
So I don't know what he was yelling, but he's going to come out.
He's got the, the cutoff hoodie, which is a great look.
The cutoff hoodie.
And he's mad.
Let's be honest.
That guy.
He, he, he enjoys being mad every now and then, you know, look at that mustache.
That's fucking horse.
That's what he was saying.
We'll never know how we, we'll never know what was at the very end of that, but it was
something like that's fucking hall.
Who knows?
Could have been horse shit.
Could have been horrible.
Vladdy takes the picture and says, Hey man, I agree.
It's fucked up, but let's just get out of here.
Nothing for us here.
Now he tells him the story and he said, Oh, okay.
That's either a really funny.
Okay.
What?
Or he's saying like, who did?
And the um, says they were going back and forth and they were talking and that's what
I heard.
And Booney's like, I'm bored.
He says, Hey, you have to leave, leave.
Cause the pitching coach came back out and come on, man.
We know you like being mad from time to time, but you got ejected.
You got to leave.
Don't delay it.
Talking to fans in the outfield board or what you want me to sign it.
I'm just telling you what I heard about.
And Charlie's like, I don't know.
It seems.
It seems stupid to me.
And he's like, we have to take him out of the game.
We had to, I don't think they had to Booney board.
All the other Yankees just laughing and smiling.
Like, yeah.
If we didn't get that mad, do you think they eject them?
They're like, no, no, they're actually, they're like looking at some scouting report and laughing
at, it looks like some lefty curve balls, what Stan's doing.
And then Rizzo and judge like, you know, fist pump there.
I don't know.
Later on top of the seventh inning tie game.
Still Johnny Lewisica on the bump, Boba Shett in the plate.
This ball is.
Up and in and he goes a little matrix reaction to it.
And everybody's going to be pretty upset about this one.
It's not head high.
You know, I think Bo admitted like he didn't think this was intentional, but scary.
I don't know.
Scary.
There's warnings in the game.
So all the blue Jays coaches are like, well, what the hell is fucking warnings?
Come on.
Why warnings then by his face?
There's warning, right?
Call a timeout then get together and talk about it and eject him like you did our guy.
Nope.
We'll just eject you.
You know who, who you, me?
Oh my God.
And then Montoro's got to walk out again with a smile.
What was smile on his face again?
Two times just walking out after objections, smiling for what?
What are you doing?
Um, says, cause you can't argue.
He says he threw it at us.
Fucking face.
He says, I know, but you can't argue.
He can't argue warnings, I guess is what he's saying.
But then they're like, why does this game have warnings?
It's a good point.
All the ejections are pretty brutal here.
I don't think any of them were warranted at all.
I'm just weren't ready for the game, but judge he's ready for the big moment at the end of this game.
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You know, who else was ready for this at bat me?
Cause I got off the couch.
I turned on the camera and I said, I'm going to walk through this one.
Cause I think it's going to be a doozy.
This is awesome.
Judge up.
If he hits a Homer, it's a walk off.
It's a double, not really speed on the basis.
He's walking a lot of guys.
So I feel like they just did a mound visit.
Probably said, don't throw the fastball.
Oh, I did.
You know, you walk that many guys.
Two, you're going to think the batter sitting fastball.
So I thought the mound visit was probably like, Hey, don't open them up fastball.
Now, what do you do?
I think you got to double up that slider, but that was a hanger.
That was only a strike.
Cause judge was taking, he did double it up.
He did double it up.
That was the pitch, man.
The first one judges in fastball.
Sure.
I think you triple it up.
You put this one low and away.
You try to get them swinging.
Let's see what he does.
Low down.
All right.
So now you're in a predicament.
Three sliders in a row.
Do you go for, does he go?
He's only two pitch pitcher.
So it's not that crazy, but do you go for, or do you try to sneak a fastball by him?
Now you still got room.
To work with.
It's only a one, two count.
So you can go up in the zone to change his eye level to then go back to the slider.
That's probably what I'd call high fastball.
Let's see what they throw.
Nope.
They're not doing that.
They're going slider again.
Oh, he went fastball and judge fouled it back.
I don't really like that pitch.
Now you got to go back to the slider.
You see that catcher deke.
He went up, down.
Up, down.
Slider again, I think.
He's going out into the middle of the plate.
Outfielders are deep.
And the one, two.
Drop deep to the field.
There it goes.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.