Detroit — Eric Haase wasn’t trying to be argumentative. He just wanted to make his point.
“I just simply told him that they’re not on the plate,” he said. “I didn’t think it was that big of an issue. I wasn’t really arguing as much as I was just telling him that’s not a strike.”
Haase, who had been called out on strikes in the fourth inning — with the first and third strikes being borderline, at best — was walking back to the dugout when home plate umpire Nic Lentz took off his mask and said something back to him.