Until the seventh inning Sunday night, Andrew McCutchen had entered and exited the batter’s box 4,823 times in major league games without getting run by a home-plate umpire. McCutchen’s first ejection finally came after plate appearance No. 4,824. The umpire was Chris Conley.
“It was a good one, wasn’t it?” McCutchen asked afterward.
McCutchen spiked his bat and berated Conley after a called third strike on a pitch well below the zone. Conley called the low strike most of the night, but McCutchen’s fury boiled over on this one.
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