There were 2,068 fans in attendance at the Quad City River Bandits’ game on Thursday night. Years from now, most will have forgotten the score of the game, but they likely will remember one aspect of what they saw at Modern Woodman Park in Davenport.
The River Bandits, who are the Royals’ Class A affiliate, lost 7-1 to the Great Lakes Loons. Not everyone on the team was in the dugout at the end.
In the seventh inning, Quad Cities’ catcher Canyon Brown, manager Jesus Azuaje and the batboy were all get ejected by plate umpire Richy Arredondo.
Yeah, the bat boy.
A Quad Cities Times story explained how things went down following the first two ejections: “With time called, Arredondo was calling for a fresh supply of baseballs that were delivered by the ball boy, who forcibly placed two balls into Arredondo’s upside-down facemask and two into his bare right hand, prompting his ejection as he walked back toward his post in the third-base dugout.”
The X account Minor League Ejections said the bat boy was tossed because of rule 6.04(a), which says he was “trying to incite, by word or sign a demonstration by spectators through his actions.”