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Mary Clarke

MLB umpires have some explaining to do after bizarrely tossing Twins manager for visiting the mound

Rocco Baldelli had every right to be angry at the umpires after this colossal screw up.

During the bottom of the fifth between the Minnesota Twins and Houston Astros, a bizarre situation unfolded between Baldelli and the umpires. When the Twins pitching coach went to talk to Aaron Sanchez on the mound, the umpires ruled that Baldelli had already used a mound visit earlier in the inning… during a benches clearing dust up.

One batter earlier, the benches cleared between the Twins and Astros when Jose Altuve was hit by a pitch from Sanchez. Then after, when Baldelli used a mound visit, the umpires forced the Twins to remove Sanchez from the game for having two visits in the inning. The ruling took Baldelli and the Twins by surprise too, as Minnesota didn’t even have a pitcher warming up in the bullpen.

Suffice it to say, Baldelli was irate at the umpire’s ruling.

It’s no wonder Baldelli went off on the umpires here. This was a bad call, plain and simple, and yet another in a long list of awful rulings by MLB officials.

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