Coach gets ejected before the game even starts, a breakdown

This insanely close call led to a lesson in arguing etiquette and three ejections over the course of two days. But it starts with a little comeback in the top of the third inning. Brought to you by Fanatics Sports and Casino. One out, runner on second, and then a big home run which flips the score. They were down one, and now they are up one. From the Giants' point of view, they were up one, now they're down one. So they're a little more heated. There's two outs, two strikes, the inning doesn't end though. We've got a little flare that drops into shallow center, so we keep going. A runner on first base, two outs, the scene is set. Arenado is coming to the dish, and the first pitch of this at bat will be, oh, a little weird, excuse me, bunt swing down and foul. Hit him in the foot, foul ball. We all know that. Coming up, one that we don't all know. The next pitch, that's a strike. It's called a ball by Alan Porter, and they say, knock, knock, knock on my head, use your brain. That was a strike, dog. So they say, OK, let's go to the review, and yes, it was a strike. So that's good, you know, ABS doing its job. The 0-2 now is a fastball up to set up the slider in the zone, which gets hit down the line. Ruled a fair ball, which means the runners are all in motion. Now you've got runners on second and third, two in scoring position. The catcher's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's take a look. It bounced first, so it doesn't matter where this ball lands. It matters where it is while it's over the bag. And obviously, this angle does not tell us because we're way down the line. But the umpire, he's in a decent spot. He's got his eyes on it, and he says, no, that was over the bag when it crossed the bag, meaning it's a fair ball. He likes his call. Here's another look. So it bounces there, and then right about where, like there, it's over the bag, you know? That's what the umpire's saying. He's saying right there. Now, his angle isn't straight down the line. I think he's not. He's got himself on a little bit of an angle, but he has a decent view. Better view than any of the replays that we've seen. Someone could do the math for me if they found out where that ball hits there, right? The distance from the white line, and then the distance traveled before it hits again, and the distance to the left of the white line. And then do that math, and do an arc in yarn on your kitchen table, and send the picture, and say, oh, I think it was over the bag. Or we can look at this tracking technology they have, which I don't know if we trust, but they have it. Because the ball is over the bag on this one. The ball is also a quarter of the size of the bag. So that doesn't seem correct. But the tracking tech does say it was over the bag, and the ump got the call right. The Giants don't argue it. They can't challenge it, per the rules. They just have to live with it, and hope they get the next guy out, and it causes no harm. First, we've got a foul ball into the crowd. It causes this guy harm, emotionally and physically, because it was in his hand. And then he drops it. It bounces. That lady who was just chilling and sitting, she gets it. Look at the agony on his face up top. He's like, oh, it was in my hand. Oh, ****. Oh, man. Nice job. You know what they say? They say, let's go back to the game and give another fan a chance. The very next pitch, as that guy is still shaking his hand in pain, goes into the outfield for a home run off of that fan's hands. And then he recovers it and hit that guy in the arm. They can't believe it. He's like, yeah, nice job. Horrible situation here. Brutal, dangerous. We go full turkey here, and he just banks him. And then, OK, they transition. But now he's gone out of it. And then somehow they figure it out. And look at that. I mean, the perseverance between these two, once foes, now friends, is unbelievable that they figured that out. And now this fan is going to crack up the entire bleachers and throw it back. Oh, just joking. Oh, no one noticed, cared or laughed. Anyway, it's a three run home run. So it was two to one. Now it's six to two. And all of a sudden that call, they're mad about it. That's it. Oh, that should be a strike. And they don't challenge it. They don't call it. The next pitch is a ball. And then the one to that should be a ball. He calls it a strike. So we're even. It's at bats level. And then strike three ends the at bat. And right afterwards, now you can see Alan Porter throw the ball to home and then turn his attention to the dugout where Vitello is yelling at him. It's a foul ball. It's a foul ball by this far. It's a foul ball. Hey, you're out of here. Boom. Why? ****. You can't believe it. Well, how? Why am I tossed? Well, me. Well, I'm just telling you it's a foul ball. I'm getting ******* thrown out for that. And you can see here, Alan Porter is going to do the same hand gesture that Vitello hit him with when he said by this far, which editors note who says by this far, he should be saying by this much. Unless that's a, you know, a regional thing. Doesn't really matter at all. Umpires, if you physically show them up and everyone knows what you're talking about, they don't like that. They want you to just yell. And in this case, he didn't really want him to yell. But Vitello continues his case. It's a ******* foul ball. OK, then come out and ******* also call the ******* strikes. **** you. Get the hell out of my ******* face. You got a ******* problem with you. **** you too. That is bullshit. You don't ******* stand there and ******* yell at me after the goddamn play. What? You come out and ******* argue instead. Why can't I ******* just do that on all the ******* strikes you cost us? Yeah. About three or four of them. About what? About what? What? What you just said about what? You're full of ----. That's what I thought. I am. Yeah. OK, check that and check the ******* shrine. Remember that you said I'm full of ----. You are full of ----. It's a ******* foul ball. Fine. Bullshit. So what? You ******* come out and talk to us. Then you have that conversation. You don't ******* pop off on me afterwards. You don't ******* pop off on me. **** you. **** you. OK, let's run through that conversation to try and figure out what's happening. Alan Porter is saying, if you've got a problem with the call, argue with me after it happens. If it's in between innings, come out here and talk to us and have a conversation about it. Don't just yell at me from the dugout. And Vitello, first year manager, he says, why can't I do that on the bad calls? If I come out and argue on the bad calls, I'm ejected right away. But on this one, I'm arguing from the dugout and you're telling me to come out and argue with you. So I'm confused about the decorum here. But the bigger thing that happened was they were talking about one call and Alan Porter was ejecting him for how he was talking about that call. And then Vitello says, and also call the strikes. And that's when you get umpire Alan Porter pause from explaining the decorum and loses all of it and just says, **** you. Now you've made it about my strike calling and I'm mad at you. So it's just a lot of, you know, the etiquette of when and how to yell an umpire, and I'm sure all the umps have maybe different rules about it. After all that goes down, Logan Webbs in the dugout, he's yelling and he says, get the **** out. Yep. Get the hell out of here. Get the hell out. Yeah. So he gets ejected, too. And it's funny because Logan Webb actually got ejected by two umpires at the same exact time, and they both said, get the hell out. This is synced up. And both umpires eject him and say, get the hell, get the hell out. So it's a double ejection. I wonder who got credited. Now, I asked Logan Webb at the All-Star game. If he would get ejected for me. He said, who's the home plate umpire? I said, Alan Porter. He said, I was trying to get ejected the other day, but they wouldn't listen to me. Hey, what do you think about getting ejected? Who are the umpires? Alan Porter's behind the dish. And then a bunch of other ones. I'll see. I'll see what I can do. Thank you. I tried to the other day. I tried to get ejected, but they weren't listening to me. Didn't work out. No, appreciate it, man. Congrats. Thank God I searched the umpires and remembered one of them. He got ejected today. Good job, Logan Webb. You got what you wanted. He's just say, hey, you guys fucked it up. You know, you fucked it up and you fucked it up. And that's why we're all mad at you. And he's like, OK, let's chill out. The next day, they're exchanging the lineup card before the game even starts. An assistant coach for the Giants, Ron Wotus. He says, you got that call wrong. He's mad. Now, next to him in the 24 jersey is a fan who got to be out there for the lineup exchange. And he gets to witness an ejection, a very soft ejection. You're gone. Get out of here. And he's just like taking it all in. You got Bannister, the coach on the Diamondbacks, listening in. And then we have some hot mics. So here you go. So, yeah, carried over into the next day, Alan Porter is a respected umpire, especially for handling altercations like this. That was the most personal amount of FUs I've heard said to each other from manager and umpire in one argument. What do you guys think? Fair? Foul? Good decorum? Bad decorum? Thanks for watching. Appreciate you. And thank you to Fanatics Sports and Casino for sponsoring this video. The only sports book that rewards every bet. Earn up to 10% fan cash on every bet. Win or lose. Then turn that fan cash into more bets, profit boosts, official team merch, tickets, trading cards, collectibles and more.