No, YOU'RE ejected! Lovullo turns tables on umpires after being tossed from game

Umpires Nick Mahrley, Mark Ripperger, Edwin Jimenez and Nic Lentz were all ejected from Wednesday’s game between the D-backs and Giants at Oracle Park. Or at least they would have been if Arizona manager Torey Lovullo had his way.

After being tossed while protesting an obstruction call against the D-backs in the eighth inning, Lovullo proceeded to respond in kind to the umpiring crew. He pointed at each of the four umpires in turn -- then made the same “You’re outta here!” motion that Ripperger, the first-base umpire, had just directed at him.

Leading 8-6 with two away in the eighth, the D-backs appeared to tag out the Giants’ Christian Koss rounding second base on a Heliot Ramos infield single, but Koss had run straight into Arizona second baseman Jordan Lawlar in the middle of the basepath. Koss was allowed to remain at second base because of the obstruction call against Lawlar, keeping the inning going and bringing the potential go-ahead run to the plate.

That was the ruling made after time was called and the umpires huddled, anyway. At first, Lovullo wasn’t sure what had happened or which ump had even made the call.

“In the heat of the moment, it wasn't adding up to me,” Lovullo said postgame. “I felt like they were just trying to cover themselves a little bit.”

The D-backs manager hit the roof, “ejecting” all four umps from the game after being tossed by Ripperger before leaving the field. He missed the rest of the game, which Arizona held on to win, 8-7.

It was Lovullo’s 22nd career ejection and his second of the season. But looking back, it was one where he admits he was in the wrong.

“They got it right,” Lovullo said. “They're really good. Umpires are good. And I stand corrected.”