DENVER — Last week, in the middle of the Mets’ longest trip of the season, Manager Terry Collins was discussing how instant replay had all but eliminated arguments from baseball, a spectacle he seemed to miss.
But there are still instances when managers can argue, and even be ejected from a ballgame, and Collins found one on Saturday night during the Mets’ 7-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
It was a matter of a foul tip — or not a foul tip, as Collins saw it — in the third inning, and it proved to be the decisive play in the game.