You can't make this up

With no fans in the stands this year, baseball umpires can hear everything going on around them. With social distancing guidelines in effect, not everyone can be in the dugout, so some players will fill seats in the stands, six feet apart, of course.

That brings us to today's matinee between the Mets and the World Series champion Washington Nationals, and a key sequence......



To be fair to Stephen Strasburg, who got the thumb in the above video, umpire Carlos Torres, no relation to a former Mets pitcher by the same name, sort of made up for what might've been a miscall on the very next pitch.

However, the Mets would go on to win the game, 8-2, on the strength of two Tomas Nido homers, the second being his first career grand slam, and split the 4 game series with the champs. The teams have split 6 games total (3-3) over the last week and change, and have 4 left against each other.

Fans have been ejected by umpires in recent years, but players not participating in a game getting tossed out of the bleachers? Maybe in amateur ball, but not in the pros that I know of.

As the title says, you can't make this up.