Madison Bumgarner yells at Max Muncy, a breakdown
What Happened
In a June 2019 Giants-Dodgers game at Oracle Park, Madison Bumgarner opened the game already barking at the home plate umpire over a borderline call on his second pitch. Things got worse fast. With a 2-0 count on Max Muncy, Bumgarner missed inside and Muncy crushed the ball into McCovey Cove. As Muncy admired it for a beat, Bumgarner started yelling at him to run, and Muncy fired back the line that made the moment famous: go get the ball out of the water if you want it back. Both benches noticed, and even another umpire stepped in to settle Bumgarner down.
Why This Matters
There's no rule against admiring a homer, which is exactly why this clip stuck. It's the unwritten-code argument boiled down to one exchange. Bumgarner has long played enforcer for the old-school crowd, lecturing hitters about pimping home runs, and Muncy's response flipped that script in real time. The Muncy quote became a t-shirt and a meme within days, and players around the league piled on. For Bumgarner, it landed during his final season with San Francisco before he left for Arizona that winter, so it doubled as a snapshot of an era ending. The bit also previews the bigger flashpoint Jomboy jokes about here: bat-flip culture was already shifting, and pitchers like Bumgarner were increasingly the ones who looked out of step.
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Players: Madison Bumgarner.
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Bumgarner is a big baby we have a game
verse this is the Dodger second pitch of
the game he does not get the call he
wants right there he says that's right
where I [ __ ] want it and to be fair
it's probably a strike by the UMP says
come on dude second pitch of the game I
overlaid that first pitch as you can see
it's right there now watch where the
second pitch is it is in the same exact
spot but the umpire calls this one a
strike so maybe the complaining from
Bumgarner did work and Hernan is like
come on man on the same picture mom says
that [ __ ] it's [ __ ] I think
Bumgarner said I'll just call the game
then you know I'm calling the game and
that's [ __ ]
[Applause]
so we're one batter into the game and
Bumgarner is pissed off the umpire he's
got a 200 on max Muncey and he gets them
with the outside fastball nice pitch
he's trying to replicate that do it
again misses his spot big goes inside
and Muncie absolutely hammers this into
the bay like deep into the bay out out
shoots the kayaks look at this guy this
guy's grilling I didn't know this was a
thing this guy tells like hey honey I'm
going to the ballgame and she knows that
that means he's going to grill on a
kayak in the water weird life anyway
let's get to the main action he says hey
[ __ ] run get the [ __ ] down to
baseline
[ __ ] go [ __ ] hey I don't know what
he said they're so mad he's such dude I
don't he's born in the wrong generation
once he's like stop dude
come on like okay come on then keep
talking keep talking go ahead Muncy Jax
are another umpire who was just fighting
with him himself has to try and calm him
down and Muncey's thought of his
comeback he thinks of it he's thinks of
it he's thinking of it he's got it he's
got it it's perfect here we go
Hey what you get the ball out of the
[ __ ] water then go get it show it to
me
something like that it wasn't even
egregious it just kind of drops the bat
takes a couple steps and starts jogging
like what's gonna happen when Bumgarner
faces Tim Anderson he's gonna have an
aneurysm I think I think he's born in
the wrong generation I think he comes
off like a huge baby