Close icon. Teams in this article: Atlanta Braves. Up Next More icon. What do you get when you combine a block party and a baseball league? Follow Cut4 Facebook icon Twitter icon Instagram icon. Five things Braves fans should know about their newest dinger hero, Adam Duvall. Load More. Connect with MLB. All rights reserved. He is, after all, the manager behind one of the most famous ejections of all time. In protest, he ran out to first base, picked it up out of the ground, and tossed it into the outfield.
Bruce Bochy was told to hit the showers early how many times? Keep reading to find out! Clint Hurdle may have ended his managerial career with a losing record, but it was when he was winning that he got ejected from the most games. In his two worst seasons as a manager, Hurdle was only ejected once, despite only winning 40 percent of his games.
Compare that to his two best seasons, when he won nearly 60 percent of his games, and you find out he was tossed ten times. One of the greatest managers in the history of baseball also happened to be one of the most prolific at getting tossed. Joe Torre won four World Series championships in 29 seasons, retired with 2, wins, and was thrown out by umps 70 times.
What makes the case of Joe Torre being tossed so interesting, is that most of his ejections came early in his career. As he got older, he calmed down. In , Leyland reached the World Series with the Florida Marlins and shocked the baseball world by winning it all they were massive underdogs. He would win the pennant two more times before retiring, winning three Manager of the Year awards along the way.
Although he never won a World Series in his long career, he did manage to get tossed 73 times. In , he won 24 games as a pitcher, leading the White Sox to the pennant. When Bochy led the Padres to the World Series in , he became the first foreign manager to do it. You might not know it looking at him, but he was born in France. Not too shabby for someone with 77 career ejections.
Tony La Russa loves getting tossed! The answer is coming up! For ten years as a manager, Paul Richards led the American League in ejections every season. At his peak, he was being ejected nearly a dozen times a year. Once Richards decided he was done getting tossed, he moved to the front office. When he jumped back into managing 15 years later, he somehow managed to go an entire season without getting ejected. When he took over in Minnesota he became the bull in the clubhouse, getting tossed five times in 11 different seasons.
Gardenhire had a lot of anger to get out, considering he never won a pennant. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Find out more. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos. All rights reserved. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.
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