When he spoke after Sunday afternoon’s game about the odd seventh-inning incident in Atlanta’s Truist Park, in which the umpiring crew stopped the game and tried to (or so it seemed) eject Washington’s GM, Mike Rizzo, from the suite he occupied in the Braves’ ballpark, Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez said he really didn’t know what happened to delay the game.
“Somebody screamed,” Martinez explained. “Honestly, I didn’t even hear it. They stopped the game, I know [umpire] Joe West went over. I know MLB is going to take a look at what happened, I don’t know the details or anything.