Cardinals’ Marmol says umpire C.B. Bucknor ‘has zero class’
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals supervisor Oliver Marmol mentioned umpire C.B. Bucknor “has zero class” for refusing to shake his hand in the course of the lineup card change at dwelling plate earlier than a sport towards the Washington Nationals on Saturday.
Marmol was seeing Bucknor for the primary time since being ejected in a contentious dispute Aug. 21 in Arizona.
“I went into that game pretty certain of my thoughts on him as an umpire,” the Cardinals’ second-year supervisor mentioned. “They weren’t very good and it shows his lack of class as a man. I chose my words wisely. I just don’t think he’s good at his job and it just showed his lack of class as a man.”
Marmol did shake fingers with the opposite three umps — Ron Kulpa, Angel Hernandez and Carlos Torres.
Marmol was ejected final 12 months within the last sport of a sequence after protesting a strike name by Bucknor towards Nolan Arenado, with every loudly questioning the opposite’s “time in the league.”
“It’s not an olive branch,” Marmol mentioned. “It’s simply respect. You can have disagreements. You nonetheless go to dwelling plate. Any time I get thrown out of a sport, I’ll go to dwelling plate the following day for that very goal. It’s unlucky.
“I went out to home to shake his hand. He didn’t want to. He has zero class.”
The pressure at dwelling plate delayed the traditional pregame image taken of the managers and the umpires. Washington supervisor Dave Martinez, seemingly uncomfortable, needed to be requested to return when he was about to go away the house plate space.
Bucknor was not accessible after Saturday’s sport and didn’t return a reporter’s phone name for remark.
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