That baby’s outta here … and so are you

This one is a head scratcher. That’s for sure.

I agree that some celebrations have that edge...this one did not. Bizarre.

No clue, but if I had to guess it was the coming out of the dugout jump spin move at the end - probably something that was mentioned pre game.

It's hard to find a limit on this sort of thing - initially being and old schooler I didn't like it, but I very much enjoyed the college games where the teams had chips on their shoulders. My son has always been in the act like you've been there before camp (don't celebrate until you've got the w), but lately I've seen some emotion in big moments before the end of the game. If I'm watching a game, I like to visually see that the game maters to the players - but where to draw the line...

This didn't cross any lines for me, everything around the base paths was directed at his own team and nothing over the top.

Agreed.  There is nothing there to warrant an ejection from my perspective, unless there was something said while rounding the bases. Umpire clarification is needed, but I don't think we are ever going to get it.

I can't help to wonder how this would be handled in the future with robo-umpires.  I realize robo-umpires are there to call balls and strikes, and a human is responsible for "managing" the game.   Would this human "game-manager" even bother to eject a player when there is borderline excessive celebration (which there is not in this case)?  Just wondering.

Between that and the ridiculous pitching clock calls or strikes because a guy took too long to get ready in the box, college baseball umpiring has not gotten off to a good start.   I get the new rules are there, but if there's no clock on the field making calls within a second of the rule is kind of crazy

Agree, the batter was pretty business like through 90% of his home-run trot.  Maybe there had been a lot of chirping and the ump didn't like his swiping across the chest thinking it was inciting his own dugout to escalate it?   I believe I heard there is a new celebration rule of no leaving the dugout/dugout area to celebrate home-runs, etc. ( not sure if that applies to game winners), so if anything I would have tossed the kid jumping to bash elbows before I tossed the hitter.  he may have technically been in "the area" but his actions are considerably more animated than his other teammates reactions, so he stood out.

I will say at the HS level I see more celebration directed AT the other dugout than I do see pure/authentic expression of emotion, especially bad in HS age travel.  Without being at this particular college game, I don't think I see that.

I've not understood the ejection.  Watched it several times.  I hope this guy never does SEC games because he would eject every HR hitter unless something was said.  I wondered if he got him for the motion at third and he thought he cut his throat rather than he actually just pointed at the name on his jersey.  But I'm pretty sure he didn't eject him until after he was in the dugout so none of that makes sense.  If it was the bat then he should have ejected him before he got to first and if it was the chest thing before he got to third.

The clock and taking too long I'm a huge fan of and hope they keep calling it.  The batters take too long.  The stepping out of the box will be interesting if it does not hold up the game.  I think it will interesting to see how fast they let pitchers work.  The GCU pitcher on Saturday was catching the ball and coming right back which I'm fine with.  Youngest son worked really fast in HS and we would do pitches by a number system so he got the pitch before he got the ball back.  Some umpires would let him pitch while the batter was still getting set between pitches so I'm fine with it. Speed the game up.

I recently attended a HA D1 softball game, which was a treat.  Both sides have predominately well gifted athletes who impressed me tremendously.  One thing that I noticed was the cheering, celebration, dugout banter, chants, songs, etc from both players and fans.  I'm not saying it was a bad thing since I enjoyed it and added to the excitement.  However, I can imagine that if the same things were done at a baseball game (hs/college) I can see it creating a problems for everyone.  I recall seeing a D1 game which my son was playing.  A college age fan (probably a little too much tailgating) was riding the players from the stand, dressed in costume, firing up the crowd, etc.  I did not hear any cuss words but did hear some mamma references.  He was escorted out and my understanding was barred for attending anymore home games for the remainder of the season.  I agree, more aggressive than the softball scene, but the softball celebrations after a HR at home plate would think it was a walk off !  I think it would add to the entertainment of baseball games much like the Savannah Bananas, but can't see the guys doing it when their possible careers are in the future.

I think the ejection was not so much the bat flip but his gesture while rounding third, right in view of  3B ump. (slashing). He said he was "underlining" team name on jersey

@Trust In Him posted:

I recently attended a HA D1 softball game, which was a treat.  Both sides have predominately well gifted athletes who impressed me tremendously.  One thing that I noticed was the cheering, celebration, dugout banter, chants, songs, etc from both players and fans.  I'm not saying it was a bad thing since I enjoyed it and added to the excitement.  However, I can imagine that if the same things were done at a baseball game (hs/college) I can see it creating a problems for everyone.  I recall seeing a D1 game which my son was playing.  A college age fan (probably a little too much tailgating) was riding the players from the stand, dressed in costume, firing up the crowd, etc.  I did not hear any cuss words but did hear some mamma references.  He was escorted out and my understanding was barred for attending anymore home games for the remainder of the season.  I agree, more aggressive than the softball scene, but the softball celebrations after a HR at home plate would think it was a walk off !  I think it would add to the entertainment of baseball games much like the Savannah Bananas, but can't see the guys doing it when their possible careers are in the future.

Oh it happens.  There were at least 5 or 6 times while my son played (mid-major) that the opposing team was doing chants from the dugout.  That was just the games I saw...I'm guessing there were more.   I hadn't seen anything like that since my daughter played Junior HIgh softball.  I commented to my son that if he ever participated in anything like that I would be so embarassed that I'd probably have to quit coming to games lol

@Ripken Fan posted:

I think the ejection was not so much the bat flip but his gesture while rounding third, right in view of  3B ump. (slashing). He said he was "underlining" team name on jersey

I thought he was underlining the team name. Was the opposing team in the third base dugout? I could tell by the video. If so, it could have been construed as taunting.

The other thing is we can’t hear what might being said on the field. I believe there was a homer last year where the hitter chirped at the pitcher around the bases. The pitcher went after him rounding third.

I was going to bring up the juco game described.  We had the catcher of the defensive team on our podcast and he said the batter cursed everyone as he ran the bases but the umpires did nothing so the pitcher did. He said it was not right but neither was not ejecting him earlier.  If you watch the video he covered the pitcher on the ground and said he had bruises and cleat marks on his body afterwards.  

@PitchingFan posted:

I was going to bring up the juco game described.  We had the catcher of the defensive team on our podcast and he said the batter cursed everyone as he ran the bases but the umpires did nothing so the pitcher did. He said it was not right but neither was not ejecting him earlier.  If you watch the video he covered the pitcher on the ground and said he had bruises and cleat marks on his body afterwards.  

Both of the JuCo teams that were involved in that deal last year are in our conference. The kid that hit the HR was incredibly mouthy when we played them. I was in the dugout during the game and heard it with my own ears. So I was not surprised when that happened a couple of weeks later. At some point you would hope that umpires would have enough common sense to understand what is likely to incite an incident and what isn’t.