Chicago Cubs manager furious at ump for ejection after Nico Hoerner’s 6-word diss

Following the game, Hoerner told the media that he gave Thomas a six-word message before being ejected.

“I don’t think it’s really that often you can verbatim say to the press afterwards, like, what got you thrown out,” Hoerner said via Marquee Sports Network. “I said, You’re having a really bad day.'”

Hoerner felt the called strike hurt the Cubs’ chances of coming back in the game.

“Big moment in that game, partially why it got a reaction out of me,” Hoerner said. “Obviously, don’t want to miss the rest of that game, and had no intention of that, but unfortunately, that was the case.”

Craig Counsell was not happy with the ejection

Counsell doubled down that Thomas was in the wrong. He said in his postgame presser that the ejection was “unwarranted.”

“The ejection of Nico was completely unwarranted,” Counsell said. “There’s nothing that was said that warrants an objection. You can’t eject players and affect outcomes of games for no offense. He didn’t like what Nico said. But it’s, you know, it just Nico’s walking by. What he said is not ejectable. You don’t just eject players and lineups and things like that.”