Buck Showalter gets ejected fo...

In Tuesday night's 7-6 defeat to the Reds, Mets manager Buck Showalter was dismissed for the first time in his tenure. In the fifth inning, reliever Stephen Nogosek forced a ground ball to second base with the Mets behind 4-1. Wil Myers slipped and appeared to smack the ball out of the air as it was heading toward Francisco Lindor's glove after a hop. Despite Lindor's contention that Myers touched the ball, the umpires declared him safe. When Showalter would ask for an explanation, he would finally get thrown out for arguing. only had a different perspective. It's fairly clear what it was," Showalter said following the match. "It's difficult to think that four men could have missed what happened. That play might be executed properly in one of three ways. We had the chance to make it irrelevant, but our early pitches weren't particularly strong. "He struck the ball as I was going to go collect it. I never had the ball in my glove, Lindor said following the game. He was blocking my lane, therefore there were two plays in that scenario: interference and the ball hitting him. Neither of them were visible to them. "Unfortunately, the umpires can't handle it alone since the game is moving so quickly. Replay is necessary. Replay has a purpose. Such plays ought to be reviewable. There's a reason we have a system. I can't hold the umpires responsible for that incorrect call. Use the cameras to your advantage, play more slowly, and make the proper decision. Showalter continued, "Clearly [the umpires] were incorrect. There were means to render it irrelevant, but we chose not to use them. Three runs would eventually score as a result of the missed call, which would ultimately determine the outcome of the game. We were harmed by the tack-on runs. The lead continued getting bigger," he remarked. I foresaw that we would eventually attack them. The margin was reduced to 7-6 by a comeback by the Mets. In the late innings, they had several chances to tie the game or take the lead. In the seventh inning, with the bases loaded and nobody out, Mark Canha hit into a double play to end a potential huge inning for the Mets. In the eighth, Lindor hit a two-run home run to cut the lead to one run, but Luis Guillorme, filling in for Canha at the plate, struck out swinging with the bases loaded. The Mets have lost three straight games, dropping their record by two games.500 (17-19).