WATCH: Making hand gestures after trying to check a swing earns an ejection
Adrian Gonzalez didn't like a swing being called and made some hand gestures that ultimately cost him
By
Matt Snyder
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The Dodgers lost to the Brewers by the count of 7-0 on Wednesday, so this ejection didn't have any bearing the result. Still, watch Adrian Gonzalez get tossed from the game for a few hand gestures:
The background is that Gonzalez had earlier in the at-bat tried to check his swing and the third-base umpire, Dan Bellino, said he went around and ruled it a strike.
Gonzalez obviously disagreed, so he motioned after strike three that what he did that time actually constituted a swing. Not the pitch before (sorry, no available video on that, but it's kind of beside the point here anyway).
For those hand motions, Gonzalez was ejected from the game by Bellino.
OK, so clearly we can say that Gonzalez shouldn't have been motioning like that. It is showing up the umpire, and sometimes they don't take too kindly to that.
What he did, however, was pretty harmless and relatively run-of-the-mill, no? He didn't yell profanity, he didn't make a huge display of things or an obscene gesture.
Ump Show? Yeah, I'm going with Ump Show. No one would have really paid any mind to the situation if the umpire didn't escalate it himself. As I've written for years, there's no reason to escalate the situation as the authority figure. If anything, they should be trying to do the opposite.
