Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo, left, argues with umpire Nic Lentz, middle, after being ejected by Mark Ripperger, right, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Diamondbacks manager Lovullo gets tossed, then ejects entire umpiring crew in game vs Giants
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥 Arizona manager Torey Lovullo was ejected in the eighth inning of the Diamondbacks game at San Francisco on Wednesday, and moments later returned the favor to the umpiring crew.
Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo, left, argues with umpire Nic Lentz, middle, after being ejected by Mark Ripperger, right, during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥 Arizona manager Torey Lovullo was ejected in the eighth inning of the Diamondbacks game at San Francisco on Wednesday, and moments later returned the favor to the umpiring crew.
Lovullo got ejected for arguing an obstruction call in the bottom of the eighth inning of the over the Giants.
He didn’t leave without turning the tables on the men in blue. He pointed to each of the four crew members and demonstratively tossed each.
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Lovullo鈥檚 theatrics were for show only, and after the game, he acknowledged the obstruction call had been the right one.
鈥淭hey鈥檙e really good,鈥 Lovullo said. 鈥淯mpires are good. I stand corrected.鈥
The play began with the Giants鈥 Christian Koss at first with two outs and Arizona leading 8-6. Heliot Ramos grounded a Ryne Nelson pitch down the third-base line. Eugenio Suarez made a backhand stop and his throw to first was not in time to get Ramos.
Koss, meanwhile, rounded second and collided with second baseman Jordan Lawlar. Koss fell and appeared injured. Koss then was tagged for what would have been the third out. But, the umpires convened and ruled obstruction on Lawlar.
That set off Lovullo, who was ejected by first-base ump Mark Ripperger, the crew chief. 鈥淚n the heat of the moment,鈥 Lovullo said, 鈥渋t wasn鈥檛 adding up to me and I felt like they were just trying to cover themselves a little bit. But in reality, there was obstruction called.
鈥淚 was trying to do the math and I didn鈥檛 know how the third-base umpire (Nic Lentz) could be watching a fair-foul ball and then the throw get off and still see obstruction. But he pointed to it and he had it.鈥
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Ultimately, the play did not affect the outcome. Koss stayed in the game, and he and Ramos were stranded when Nelson retired Wilmer Flores on a pop to catcher Jose Herrera.
That meant Lovullo didn鈥檛 have to stew over the obstruction ruling.
鈥淲hen I looked at 鈥檈m, nobody put their hands up,” the manager said. “Nobody put their hands out and pointed obstruction, and that鈥檚 why I thought they were kind of inventing a call, but they got it right.鈥
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