WATCH: Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo’s ejection takes dramatic turn with umpires

Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo is the news after his team's narrow win against the San Francisco Giants in the rubber game of the series on Wednesday.

Lovullo was ejected in the eighth inning of the game after the Diamondbacks manager argued an obstruction call. However, he turned the tables on the umpires.

In a bizarre turn of events, the Diamondbacks manager seemingly tossed the umpire crew after his ejection.

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The incident happened when Giants' Christian Koss collided with Arizona second baseman Jordan Lawlar while round second after Heliot Ramos grounded off Ryan Nelson's pitch.

The umpires called obstruction on Koss by Lawlar. While Lovullo was incensed by the decision at the time, he acknowledged it after the game.

"In the heat of the moment,” Lovullo said, “it wasn’t adding up to me and I felt like they were just trying to cover themselves a little bit. But in reality, there was obstruction called.

“I was trying to do the math and I didn’t know how the third-base umpire (Nic Lentz) could be watching a fair-foul ball and then the throw get off and still see obstruction. But he pointed to it and he had it.”

Torey Lovullo clears the air on his ejection.

Following the series win after a thriller on Wednesday, Torey Lovullo shared he misunderstood the call from the umpires, which led to him objecting to the obstruction call.

“When I looked at ’em, nobody put their hands up," Lovullo said. "Nobody put their hands out and pointed obstruction, and that’s why I thought they were kind of inventing a call, but they got it right.”

The obstruction call didn't hamper the Diamondbacks' 8-6 lead as the Giants ended the inning with runners stranded in scoring positions. Arizona won 8-7 to improve their record to 23-21 for the season, in fourth in the National League West.

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Chaitanya Prakash is an editor who covers US Sports at Sportskeeda. His first brush with sportswriting was in 2012 when the greatest football manager of all time, Sir Alex Ferguson, bid farewell to the beautiful game.

Although having started out professionally as a cricket writer in 2022, Chaitanya's curiosity and indiscriminate interest in all sports in general eventually introduced him to America's favorite pastime.

While Chaitanya's favorite player from the current crop is the dynamic Venezuelan Ronald Acuna Jr., his all-time favorite, however, is Pedro Martinez, for his self-belief and consistency. He also rates Jose Bautista's iconic bat flip in 2015 as his favorite moment in baseball history.

Chaitanya specializes in reporting on technical aspects of the game or analyzing patterns behind specific plays. He also likes pondering over players' self-assessments following the conclusion of a game as it helps him get an idea of how they think about the sport in general.

When not cheering for his favorites across sports, Chaitanya likes being transported to the past through a good war documentary or a historical documentary in general.

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