Carlos Gomez entered the Rays-Blue Jays game as a pinch hitter last night, struck out looking and was ejected because he argued the call. But though his time in the game was quickly over, his evening was just beginning.
Gomez didn’t even wait for the game to end before taking to Twitter to rip home plate umpire Andy Fletcher First thing he did was post video of himself being called out on strikes, saying “the only job they have is to call balls and strikes. Do you guys think that pitch is a strike?
— Carlos Gomez (@RealCarlosGomez) September 21, 2018
He went on:
— Carlos Gomez (@RealCarlosGomez) September 21, 2018
And more, saying that if he kept showing these he’d find ten more pitches like this called strikes that, he believes, were balls:
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽heck of a job out there tonight Andy Fletcher! pic.twitter.com/86mA74ZdPT
— Carlos Gomez (@RealCarlosGomez) September 21, 2018
He also believes that strikes thrown by Rays pitchers were balls:
If anyone needed to be ejected out of tonight's game it was Andy Fletcher!! pic.twitter.com/Nba57VVMzN
— Carlos Gomez (@RealCarlosGomez) September 21, 2018
You guys watch the videos and you be the judge.
— Carlos Gomez (@RealCarlosGomez) September 21, 2018
There were other tweets that he subsequently deleted, but when he got back to his hotel room, he posted a six-minute-long video apologizing for some of those posts, saying “I made a mistake” -- it’s not clear what it was he had deleted or what he was mistaken about -- but then he went on to say that Fletcher was “brutal” and that he was not doing his job, claiming that if you watched more video of the game you’d see that Fletcher missed more than 30 pitches.
You get ejected for arguing balls and strikes in this league. You get fined for saying bad things about umpires after a game. My guess is that saying LOTS of bad things about umpires after a game, along with video evidence publicly criticizing them, you’re gonna get a BIG, BIG fine and, possibly, a suspension.
Hope that all made you feel better, though, Carlos!
