Hey, how many innings did Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price manage today? Try zero – he got ejected before the first pitch after getting into a heated argument with the umpiring crew while bringing out the Reds’ lineup card.
Price apparently had an issue with the strike zone called in Cleveland on Friday night by Manny Gonzalez. Here are the zones called by Gonzalez against both left-handers and right-handers.
Inconsistent? I’m not so sure about that. Most everything in the zone was called a strike by Gonzalez. He consistently called the outside strike and the low strike for left-handers for both Reds and Indians pitchers, though there are a couple of outliers in there.
All in all, how does this help the Reds? Great, Price proved his point…and earned himself an ejection for something that bothered him the night before. It proves nothing. It helps no one. But hey, I hope Price feels better about himself!
