An independent league baseball game experienced a 61-minute delay during the first inning on Sunday as the result of an altercation which led to both a player and an umpire being ejected.
It’s a rare sight for an umpire to get ejected from a baseball game he was officiating, but that was exactly that case during Sunday’s Frontier League clash between the New York Boulders and Tri-City ValleyCats.
After Boulders player Tucker Nathans was ejected by umpire Warren Nicholson, tempers flared between the two, who got in a screaming match in each other’s faces. Things escalated and Nicholson ended up initiating physical contact with the player, resulting in the ejection of the first-base umpire.
