Jeff Banister went 44 games without being ejected. He couldn't make it through 45.
The Texas Rangers manager expressed his displeasure with home-plate umpire Paul Nauert's strike zone in the bottom of the eighth inning Thursday.
It didn't take Nauert long to send Banister to the clubhouse. Banister couldn't have been happy on a questionable 3-2 pitch that was called a ball to White Sox outfielder Nicky Delmonico. That walk loaded the bases.
Replays showed that Leclerc's pitch may have caught the bottom of the strike zone, but Nauert issued a walk. Leclerc walked the next batter, Matt Davidson, to bring in the game-tying run and Banister made a pitching change.