Baseball Umpire Roasted for ‘GET OFF MY LAWN’ Moment as Hitter Tries to Enjoy His Home Run: ‘Get These Old A** People Outta Baseball’

Brandon ContesJun 8th, 2021, 12:09 pm
 

Home runs are fun. And as baseball struggles to attract a younger base of fans, the sport should prioritize embracing fun.

Dallas Baptist’s Andrew Benefield stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded, two outs, and his team trailing Oregon State 5-2 in the seventh inning of an NCAA baseball tournament game Monday afternoon. Knowing the winner would advance to the Super Regionals, and the loser would be sent home, Benefield smashed a first-pitch fastball over the fence for a grand slam.

There’s a reason why massive bat flips go viral. Fans celebrate home runs, the players should be able to celebrate them too. Benefield’s reaction wasn’t even that a bat flip, the redshirt freshman slowly left the batter’s box, attempting to enjoy the moment. Until the home plate umpire, Scott Cline, seemed determined to suck the fun right out of the game, and yelled at Benefield to start his trot.

Even the ESPNU broadcast noticed Cline’s desire to ruin the moment: “When you get it, and you know it, you wanna enjoy it! Until the umpire tells you, you gotta go.”

Who knows how far Benefield will go in his baseball career. Maybe he advances to the majors a few years from now. But that home run might have been the biggest hit of Benefield’s baseball career, so let him enjoy it. Baseball fans on social media shared the sentiment, and roasted the ump for being a fun sucker.

Watch above via, ESPNU

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