Matt Beaty gets ejected for telling the ump he's bad, a breakdown
What Happened
During a Dodgers-Marlins game in May 2021, home plate umpire Chad Fairchild ejected two people in roughly the same inning. First, a Miami hitting coach got tossed in the top of the frame for arguing balls and strikes while Trevor Bauer was carving up the lineup. Then in the bottom of the fourth, after the Dodgers walked in runs to tie the game, Matt Beaty stepped in against a fresh pitcher, disagreed with a couple of calls, turned to Fairchild and said he was 'so bad.' Fairchild ran him almost instantly, leaving Dave Roberts furious and a smiling Clayton Kershaw asking what happened.
Why This Matters
Umpires can eject players for personal attacks under the rulebook, and the line Jomboy draws here is the key one. Saying 'that's so bad' about a call is criticism. Saying 'you're so bad' to the umpire is personal, and that's what got Beaty tossed. The quick hook is what made Roberts livid, since players are generally allowed to vent about strike zones before crossing into insults. The context adds salt: Bauer was dominant that day and the Dodgers had just clawed back to tie, so the moment came with the game on the line. Beaty was a bench bat for a defending champion club, and getting run for a one-liner in a close game is the kind of ejection that lingers in a manager's memory. The overlaid pitch graphics show the two pitches were close but not identical.
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Who / What Is Involved
Players: Matt Beaty, Trevor Bauer. Teams: Dodgers, Indians.
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Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentdodgers marlins over the weekend home
plate ump chad fairchild tosses out a
marlin
and a dodger in this one Trevor Bauer
has struck out
four in a row at this point three in the
first look at that little front hip
two seamer it's beautiful change up
fastball bowers hitting him with
everything that one goes right to left
to move him off the plate that one goes
left to right
to take advantage of moving him off the
plate look at that pitch
it's nasty now the hitting coach for
miami he didn't like it he didn't think
that should be a strike and he thought
one earlier was the same so he gets
tossed for yelling keep him on the
plate
that's what he says he's good enough he
doesn't need your help okay this guy
wants me to keep him on the plate
he said keep him on the plate just jot
that down real quick then
turner comes up now we're bottom four
dodgers
turner's safe muncie pokes that one
right up the middle he gets the first
base yes he's safe
and then 3-2 pitch walks the bases
loaded
tie game in the fourth then he walks in
another run
and matt beatty comes up and he says
dude that was an easy rbi i want to get
a walk
i'll take an rbi walk that sounds like a
lot of fun
so he steps into the box glass is on
getting ready and don madden's like no
we're gonna change the picture we don't
want the rbi walk new pitcher comes in
that is called a ball that is a strike
now this next pitch starts it because no
not that one
my bad this next pitch that's called a
strike
and beatty doesn't like that because he
thinks it's pretty similar to the first
pitch she saw
and here's both of them overlaid and
that's kind of where they are
the one on top was called a strike the
one on the
left was called the bald so they're
different but he thinks
you know hey pretty similar pitches you
called one a ball want to strike
and then the ump calls the outside
pitcher strike and baby doesn't like
that at all
because now he's getting the inside and
he's getting the outside and he just
turns to him and he says
so bad and the um ejects him out of the
game
bam now if he said you're
so bad you're so bad
if that was that if you said you're so
bad that's a personal
insult and umpires like per the rules
can eject people
for personal attacks if he said that's
so bad
then i don't know that's a really
incredibly
bad quick hook he probably said you're
so bad i don't know hey
roberts is mad what's going on here
chad hey that's too quick of a call
right there
he's like well i don't care what he said
he's like well he said i was a really
bad umpire hurt my feelings he's like
chad you miss you miss calls like that
all the time
and keep people are allowed to tell you
that they're bad and baby's like well
what what the heck man that was nothing
bower comes up to him
and he says what you say i told him he
was bad
bower says yeah can't be saying that to
humps these days
now kershaw on the crew they're like
what'd you say and he was like all i did
is i told him that he was bad and
they're like well what did he say
oh he said you're gone so i'm gone
kershaw's laughing he likes it
so baby got ejected and that's about all
of that
oh on the next play we had a shoe come
loose tries to turn the double play
shoe comes loose bertie tries to turn to
a play
shoe comes loose says okay okay okay
okay
i'll just settle for one jeez
shout out to that shoe