re: Bryce Harper got tossed for being out of the batter's box

But seriously I had no clue you could get thrown out for just standing outside the batters box. I mean you see players step out of the box all the time to either take a practice swing or just step away and breathe real quick at all levels of baseball. I used to do that all the time in my playing days and never once had an umpire tell me anything.

frick this umpire. He seriously needs to be punished for this clown move.

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New rule that you have to have a foot in. However, it doesn't say you can throw a player out for breaking the rule. You're actually supposed to add a strike to the count if he refuses to get back in the box.

Also, it looks like Harper was showing Hudson that his foot was actually in the box right before he got tossed.

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and if the Ump is the reason the game comes to a grinding halt, like he was here, the player should have every right to step out of the box.

Plus Haper gets one clean shot at his nuts before the next game.

Wow. That was incredible. Surely that ump will have some explaining to do.

MLB Tonight had a quote from the ump that said it didn't have anything to do with the box.

Then what was it?

people need to stop hating Bryce for no reason. Including umpires.

Dude is really good and plays really hard. So he talks some shite sometimes. Deal with it.

It's entirely possible to be a really good, hard nosed player and a total shite bag all at the same time.

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Couldn't do any worse than Angel Hernandez

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When they had him and West in the same umpiring crew, it just made you wish the bus would break down on the way to the game.

I guess you would have to ask the umpire for his exact reasoning, but when you look at everything that was going on it isn't as simple as listening to the homer color commentator. The dugout was arguing two strike calls on the previous batter, including the called third, then the pitch to Harper was the very next pitch.

It isn't all that difficult to fill in the gaps from there. Harper disagreed with the strike call and started yapping. The dugout had been yapping for what was now the second straight batter. Umpire loses it for a minute, warns the dugout, then tells Harper to get back in the box. Harper continues yapping and shows him up by pointing to the box as if to say "what, that box?" then tip toeing up to it. Umpire runs him.

He lost his cool and shouldn't have, but it didn't appear to be as simple as "he stepped out of the box and was ejected because he's Bryce Harper".