Thursday, May 17, 2012

Ejection 035: Laz Diaz (1)

HP Umpire Laz Diaz ejected Oakland A's Manager Bob Melvin for arguing a no catch call in the bottom of the 6th inning of the A's-Rangers game. With one out and two on, Rangers batter Elvis Andrus hit a sacrifice bunt to A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy. Rangers R3 Craig Gentry scored, R1 Ian Kinsler to second, and Andrus to first. Replays indicate that Andrus popped up his bunt to McCarthy, who cleanly caught the ball in his glove on the fly, the call was incorrect.* At the time of the ejection, the Rangers were leading, 4-3. The A's ultimately won the contest, 5-4, in 10 innings.

This is Laz Diaz (63)'s first ejection of 2012.
Laz Diaz now has -2 points in the UEFL (0 Previous + 2 MLB + -4 Incorrect Call = -2).
Crew Chief Tim Welke now has 0 points in the UEFL's Crew division (0 Previous + 0 Incorrect = 0).
*After review, Quality of Correctness has been affirmed in a 5-0 decision by the UEFL Appeals Board (Incorrect==>Incorrect).

UEFL Standings Update

This is the 35th ejection of 2012.
This is the 21st Manager ejection of 2012.
This is Bob Melvin's first ejection of 2012.
This is the Oakland A's first ejection of 2012.
This is Laz Diaz's first ejection since August 19th, 2010.
This is the first Thursday ejection of the 2012 season.

Wrap: A's at Rangers 5/17/12
Video: Texas Rangers eke out late-inning lead on controversial call
Video: Melvin is ejected by Diaz for arguing no catch call on Andrus' bunt
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