Ejected after Gabriel Moreno was hit in retaliation, Lovullo spoke clearly after the game addressing any intent.
Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo was ejected Monday night, after becoming embroiled in an argument with the umpiring crew over a beanball war that broke out. The Diamondbacks lost the game 10-4.Bobby Witt Jr. was having a fantastic night. He came up to bat in the bottom of the sixth inning having already hit a triple, a double and a homer. The fans at Kauffman stadium were on their feet with anticipation, hoping to see a cycle.
Instead D-backs reliever Humberto Castellanos threw a pitch up and in that hit Witt on the arm. Understandably, the fans and the Royals' bench and on deck hitter Salvador Perez especially, were angry, and felt it was intentional. Lovullo insisted it was not intentional and that he did not speak to Perez directly. He expressed a great deal of praise for Witt as being the future of the game, and said that he would never call for him to be hit.
The ejection came after the Diamondbacks and Royals hit batters with pitches in back-to-back innings, one with Bobby Witt Jr. near a cycle.The next half inning D-backs catcher Gabriel Moreno was hit in the back, clearly a case of retaliation with intent. Lovullo's argument was that if the umpires felt that Castellanos had hit Witt intentionally then they should have ejected him immediately. Instead they issued warnings to both benches and that's when Lovullo came out to argue.
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