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Jimenez ejection has impact on Orioles - WDSU New Orleans

Saturday, April 18, 2015

BOSTON -- Facing a four-game weekend series at Fenway Park, the last thing Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter wanted to have to do was bring in a reliever in the fourth inning of the first game.


But because of the decision of home plate umpire Jordan Baker, that's exactly what Showalter had to do.


He wasn't happy.


"It's kind of professionally a little embarrassing to see that type of thing have that kind of impact," said Showalter, who saw starter Ubaldo Jimenez quickly ejected for hitting Boston's Pablo Sandoval. "It just puts our bullpen in a challenge now for the rest of this road trip. It's unfortunate that it impacted the game that much."


Jimenez, trying to bounce bad from a rough season and coming off a strong opening outing, hadn't allowed a hit in a 3 2/3 innings but was having control trouble. He threw 59 pitches, only 30 for strikes.


"Everybody, I would think about 30-40 thousand people (were surprised}," Showalter said of the ejection. "MLB will look at it and hopefully and take some action to make sure it doesn't happen again. Something like that to impact the game the way that much. It's sad that it did."


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