Watch: Nolan Arenado ejected after roaring at the umpire for checked swing call for strike 3
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Nolan Arenado was right about what he did according to himself, and most of the fans who know the 9-time Gold Glove award winner, he is mostly accurate in his perceptions. An inspection of video replays later confirmed to him that he did indeed hold up, however, home-plate umpire John Libka not only saw things differently.
After Nolan Arenado’s ejection, the at-bats for the St. Louis Cardinals took a dip, resulting in a 7-1 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Moreover, Arenado did take the blame upon his shoulder once the team could not see the face of victory.
“I’m not always right, but I feel like I was right there, and I knew I was because I didn’t go [around] at all,” Nolan Arenado said following the seventh ejection of his 10-year career and his second this season. “He saw it different. I thought he did, for sure, I thought he had a quick hook.”
“You could definitely say I overreacted, and at that moment I probably shouldn’t, especially in the third inning and a lot of ballgames left,” Nolan Arenado added. “But, like I said, I knew I didn’t go [around] and I was really upset about it.”
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“The reality is John’s behind the plate, he’s a really good umpire and he does a nice job back there the whole way around — consistent and fair,” said Cardinal’s manager Oliver Marmol, who raced out of the dugout and tried to protect Arenado from getting ejected, but he was too late.
“Tonight, wasn’t handled correctly at all. One, I think he got the call wrong, and he should have checked. Two, that should have been handled completely differently with Nolan. There was no reason for an ejection. It impacted the game in the moment, and it impacted the rest of the game with not having one of your best players on the field.”
“Obviously, Albert has been the biggest of the fray with what he’s been doing, and Goldy is the same,” Nolan Arenado said of a lineup that had helped the Cardinals win 18 of 22 before Wednesday’s loss. “We need that to continue because we’re not scoring runs, at times.”
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