Here's a side of Torey Lovullo we don't get to see very often.
The first-year Arizona Diamondbacks manager showed his fiery side at the end of the fourth inning of Wednesday night's game vs. the visiting St. Louis Cardinals after D-backs catcher Jeff Mathis was ejected by home plate umpire D.J. Reyburn for arguing a strike call.
Following Mathis' ejection, Lovullo rushed on to the field to have some words with Reyburn himself. It didn't end well.
Torey Lovullo and Jeff Mathis were just ejected, and Brenly doesn't mince words is saying their beefs w/ HP ump D.J. Reyburn were justified. pic.twitter.com/WuB92mVSG3
— FOX Sports Arizona (@FOXSPORTSAZ) June 29, 2017
The D-backs trailed St. Louis by a 3-1 score at the time of the ejections, and they went on to lose the game 4-3 despite a ninth-inning rally.
This marks the first time Lovullo has been ejected as the D-backs' manager, but it's not the first time in his baseball career that he's been tossed. He was ejected from a game on May 30, 2014 when he was a bench coach for the Boston Red Sox. (Fast-forward to the 3:35 mark in the video below.)
