Tarp Or Tossed? Ump Says He Didn’t ‘Eject’ O’s Grounds Crew

BALTIMORE (AP) — Even for shot fans who’ve seen everything, this was a bizarre sight: The full Baltimore Orioles’ grounds crew, perched down the tarp and poised to outpouring into enactment arsenic a tempest approached, abruptly got told by an umpire to scram.

That’s however it looked Wednesday nighttime astatine Camden Yards arsenic the Orioles clung to a one-run pb successful the ninth inning implicit the New York Yankees.

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Ready to rotation retired the tarp from beyond archetypal base, astir 20 members of the grounds unit were lasting successful foul territory successful beforehand of the archetypal enactment of seats, waiting for a signal. What they saw was acting umpire unit chief Tim Timmons cutting crossed the diamond from his spot astatine 3rd base, emphatically waving respective times for them to wholly wide the field.

Quickly, the unit scrambled down the close tract line, into the country and retired of sight.

Were they chirping excessively much? Were they trying excessively hard to get engaged and support Baltimore’s edge? Were they tossed?

Naw, naw and naw, Timmons said.

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“I didn’t ‘eject’ the grounds crew,” Timmons said successful a substance to The Associated Press. “I conscionable didn’t privation each of them down the tarp, particularly with the infield in.”

So connected what soon became a bedewed night, the Baltimore brigade kept its grounds spotless, and didn’t articulation mascots and stadium organists connected the database of unusual ballpark ejections implicit the years.

This country unfolded with the Orioles up 3-2, runners connected 2nd and third, and Brett Gardner batting with 1 out. After the unit scurried away, Gardner fouled disconnected 3 pitches earlier blooping a two-run azygous that gave the Yankees a 4-3 win.

It began to rainfall astir 5 minutes later. The tract was ne'er covered and the crippled finished without incident.

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