This is crazy, dude hits a home run, taunts evryone he possibly can going around the bases. Opposing team takes their players off the field, a parent got ejected, and the league commissioner had to go down to the field to calm things down. Sadly the team with the taunter won. Samford baseball player's home run taunts make Mercer team so mad it pulls players from field in protest
Kid deserved to be tossed, but have to wonder if something had been brewing from earlier in the game to act like that.
I think it is due to the elimination of the "purpose" pitch more. Late during the Sunday Alabama game with the Gators up a lot a Bama player hit a double and made a semi-lewd dance at second base in celebration. Sitting next to me were a "mixed marriage" couple (he was a Gator and she was Crimson Tide and/or and elephant or whatever is their mascot) and I said to him "if it was the old days and he came up again he would be seeing at least chin music." I don't know if what he did rose to the level of a fastball thrown behind him as the natural reaction is to bail out from the plate right into the path of the pitch. But a message would be sent back in the day. Can't do that anymore. That is why we see so much bat flipping and taunting by batters.
Off topic a bit, but the leaving the field thing reminded me of a LL game as a kid. Opposing team had a tall emotional hard throwing, typically wild lefty named Bobo C. ( I still recall his last name but won't post it). First inning he walked the first 3 batters then hit a batter. Not sure he threw a strike. Bobo yelled, threw down his glove, walked off the field, left the park and never played again. Quite memorable.
Lurk— You are absolutely correct and I agree completely with you. However, you’re talking about fixing what’s wrong with the game and I’m not so sure that they want to do that. And that is sad. I can remember Alan’s 9th grade year. After he completed the JV season Scott moved him up to the varsity to travel the spring break trip and finish their season. The first game Alan was brought in the opposing pitcher had hit two of our guys and our pitcher didn’t retaliate. Their pitcher was the first hitter Alan was going to face. I looked at our players on the bench and said every one of you better beat that sob to the mound. Someone asked “did you tell Alan to hit him?” I said I didn’t have to, he knows how to play the game.
