Piazza, Valentine Ejected in Loss

MIAMI (AP) _ The New York Mets lost their cool and the Florida Marlins won a slugfest, giving the largest crowd in Miami this season plenty to cheer and jeer about Saturday night.

Preston Wilson hit two home runs and Mike Lowell homered to break a seventh-inning tie, helping Florida end a four-game losing streak by beating the Mets 9-7.

A crowd of 33,291 hooted and hollered as Mets catcher Mike Piazza and manager Bobby Valentine were ejected just before Lowell's homer.

Piazza, upset that he was called out on strikes in the top of the seventh, resumed his complaint while catching in the bottom of the inning and was thrown out by plate umpire. Bobby Valentine was thrown out immediately after.

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[nycblaze]

Bring him back as Mets manager

[bobleeleebob]

fire manuel and Omar.. and bring Bobby Valentine as GM and manager !!!

LET GO METS !!

[bigchrisram]

@hdust did you realize what you just said "NBA, NHL, NFL" all differnt sports and in this sport the umpire is making a call on judgement the whole game. they dont have challenges and shit like that so they get bitchy coaches that will come up and go by what they saw and they wont go to the slow-mo to change the call, nba they dont do that nhl they dont do that nfl they dont do that.

[hdust]

@bigchrisram He is right. Umpires AREN'T supposed to do that. And itf it is SOOOO hard how come you never seen an NBA NHL and NFL official doing it?

[wvmetsfan]

@citikid34 They played like girls in '06 when they were a win away from the World Series?

[bigchrisram]

@MrProwlersfan the only thing that should get suspended is you from ever watching baseball period shut the fuck up about unprofessional, id like to see you do there job not being with there family living in a hotel traveling all the time for a couple months straight and have to deal with this shit about every day...

[MrProwlersfan]

Umps aren't supposed to get in a manager's face. Very unprofessional job by this ump. He should be suspended.

[NiyyatAlinsan]

@metsfanforever693 man,I miss him too.

[ThisNamesNowTaken]

1:56 - 1:58, why's he acting like someone's holding him back? LOL

[skipdillard]

that ump was a dick he is supposed to walk away and not provoke the players or manager..i would have fined his ass.!!!!!

[dmeachy]

i knew someone was going to make a comment about the umpires. Players and coaches need to grow up and just let the umpires call the game. I suppose it is quite permissible to act like a baby when you don't get your way. Each team gets 27 outs to do something towards winning the game. Some of these coaches need therapy. And nothing like a good ol ejection and a fine to straighten some of them out.

[Eaglesfanmd]

totally unprofessional ump, complete jackass