Javier Baez was so enraged by a referred to as strike three that he needed to be held again throughout the Tigers’ 3-1 win over the Giants on Memorial Day.
The Tigers shortstop turned heated within the fifth inning when residence plate umpire Phil Cuzzi referred to as Baez out on a 3-2 pitch that appeared exterior the strike zone.
Baez rapidly obtained into Cuzzi’s face and commenced arguing, showing as if he was going to stroll away, however re-engaged with him a number of instances earlier than the house plate ump lastly tossed him from the sport.
The already offended Baez tried to cost again towards Cuzzi after he tossed him, with third base coach Joey Cora and teammate Gleyber Torres needing to carry him again.
“Javy Baez is incensed. I don’t know what was said, but Javy is livid,” one of many Tigers’ broadcasters mentioned on-air. “A.J. Hinch was one step away, but Phil Cuzzi threw out Javy Baez and Javy’s going to leave this game.”
After the sport, Baez instructed reporters that he had solely mentioned that it wasn’t “a f–king strike.”
“That’s the only thing I said. And then he said, ‘Don’t point at it. Walk out.’ And then I said, ‘What do you mean, walk out? I’m asking you something,’ and then he just threw me out,” Baez mentioned, in keeping with Evan Petzoid of the Detroit Free Press.
Baez insisted that his response wasn’t over the referred to as strike, however quite the way in which that Cuzzi had spoken to him throughout the incident.
“It’s not even about the call. It’s about how he treated me,” Baez mentioned. “I’m not an animal. We can talk. We can argue. And that’s it. If he would’ve told me, ‘OK, I missed it,’ I would’ve f–king shut up. I know he’s not perfect, but don’t treat me like that.”
