College baseball player’s mother ejected during taunting incident

Tensions ran so high that Mercer manager Craig Gibson decided to pull his team off the field in what appeared to be some sort of protest. Southern Conference commissioner Michael Cross went down to the field to speak with the umpiring crew during what ended up being a 25-minute break in the action. Umpires decided to eject Gupton, Frye, Mercer pitching coach Tanner Gordon and Samford assistant coach Gil Walker, according to Jack Baer of Yahoo Sports.

A fan was then ejected as well — Frye’s mother. She was escorted from the ballpark after climbing onto the dugout following her son’s ejection.

The dust eventually settled and the game continued, but another player was ejected a short while later. Mercer’s third baseman was tossed after he shoved a Samford player who was thrown out in a rundown.

Samford held on to win 5-1 and advance to the SoCon championship game. They will face ETSU with the conference title on the line.

We can’t remember another baseball game where there was mayhem quite like that.