[新聞] Harper, MW disagree with ejections
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Harper, Williams strongly disagree with ejections
Chase Hughes
May 20, 2015, 10:53 PM EDT
Hours after they were tossed from Wednesday night’s win over the Yankees by
home plate umpire Marvin Hudson, both Nationals manager Matt Williams and
right fielder Bryce Harper remained fired up about their third inning
ejections.
Harper and Williams were still confused as to why they were ejected in the
first place.
“I’m really not sure. I have no idea. I think the whole thing was me not
getting into the box,” Harper said.
“I can’t. I can’t explain it. I don’t believe there’s anything that
warrants throwing him out of the game right there,” Williams said.
Both also strongly disagreed with Hudson’s decision.
“I don’t think 40,000 people came to watch him ump tonight. Plain and
simple,” Harper continued. “I really don’t think they did. Especially when
we’re playing the Yankees. The Yankees are a good team, we’re a good team
and we’re rolling. I don’t want to get tossed. There’s no reason for me to
get tossed in that situation. I don’t think I did anything bad to get
tossed. Maybe he just had a bad morning or he didn’t get his coffee.”
“Doggone it, he’s our best player and arguably the best player on the
planet right now. And we need him in the game,” Williams said. “And I don’
t feel as if there was any need to throw him out. So that’s why I went out
and argued.”
The whole sequence began after Hudson called strike one on a pitch by Yankees
starter Drew Warren in the bottom of the third inning. It was a breaking ball
that was low as it crossed the plate. Harper thought it was out of the strike
zone and let Hudson know about it.
“That was a little down, don’t you think?” Harper recalled saying as he
looked down and dug back in for the second pitch.
Hudson then told Harper to get back into the box. Williams and others in the
dugout took issue with both the pitch and the exchange and started yelling at
Hudson. The umpire then took his mask off to yell back at Williams.
Harper said Hudson then told him to get back in the box, but Harper replied
he wouldn’t because Hudson was still talking to Williams. Harper said he
made sure to keep his head down as he talked back to Hudson so the umpire
wouldn’t think he was showing him up.
“Once you tell me to get in the box then I’m gonna take my time,” Harper
said. “I mean truly, I don’t need to get in the box when you’re chirping
at my manager. And I don’t need to be in the box with your mask off. I mean
that’s an equipment violation if you have your mask off. So nothing I can do.
”
Hudson spoke after the game to a pool reporter and clarified some of the
situation, though he wouldn’t get into specifics of what Harper and Williams
said.
“Had nothing to do with the box,” he said. “[Harper] didn’t like the
pitch, and I let him have his say going and coming. The dugout didn’t like
it, and one thing led to another and I had to run him. I had to eject him.”
On Williams: “He said something he shouldn’t have.”
It was Harper’s fifth career ejection and his second in a week. Both he and
Williams were ejected from last Wednesday’s game in Arizona. The Nationals
also rallied to win that game after both were tossed, but this one put them
in sole possession of first place in the NL East.
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