Even though baseball as a game has been in existence for over 100 years, it never fails to surprise us with things that we have never seen before. That’s exactly what happened on September 15th, when in the top of the ninth, third-base umpire Tim Timmons appeared to be aggravated with someone. It was impossible to tell through the monitors whom he was gesturing so wildly at, until Ken Singleton and Michael Kay, in unison, uttered: “Oh, no.”
Running across the diamond, Timmons ejected the entire grounds crew. The crew, who had taken up perch behind the infield tarp in preparation for imminent rain, then left their position and ran, tail between their legs, out through a gate in right field.