Good morning and welcome to episode 425 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus presented by the baseballreference.com Play Index. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.

Howdy. Howdy. So there were a few firsts in Baseball today on the season. We had the

royals hitting their first home run of the season, which was long overdue. We had Billy Hamilton

getting his first steal, which was on Yadier Melina, who did not attempt to throw because it was

it was futile. He was he was there by the time the pitch was at the plate and he did he basically did

Billy Hamilton things the whole game. He in that same inning scored on basically a pop-up. It was

caught by the right fielder, but could have been caught by the second baseman. He tagged and scored. He also

had a single and I think he had a triple and he beat out a bunch and it was this sort of thing that

we have hoped to see from Billy Hamilton. And we saw the first managerial ejection of the season.

Rick Rinteria was ejected for arguing balls and strikes. And I'm kind of curious about whether,

I mean obviously there are usually many more managerial ejections than this. We haven't seen any

because you can now appeal and go to a replay instead of arguing fruitlessly until you get thrown

out of the game. I also I kind of wonder whether we'll see fewer ejections even for balls and strike

only arguments disputes than we would have in the past just because managers are maybe just sort

of in a better mood now or kind of have friendlier feelings toward umpires now that they're not

bitter about some call that they think didn't go their way and and they had no recourse and they

were frustrated about it. So maybe they would take it out the next time there was a borderline

pitch or something and now that won't happen. And actually Joe Madden tweeted something yesterday.

He said it's been a love fest with the umpires a big happy discussion. Almost no reason to get upset

anymore except balls and strikes. So even even balls and strikes probably less upsetting than they

would have been in the past. So managerial ejections and arguments sort of sadly but not totally sadly

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