Cox came out to protect his player and ended up getting ejected, but of course, McCann joined him, after continuing the conversation and getting tossed when he went behind the plate to catch.
In , Cox was into his lates, so he tempered how demonstrative he was, as compared to the glory days. Well, it didn't matter, because you could always bet that the Braves manager was going to say a couple magic words that would get him tossed immediately, including a night in August, where he argued a called strike three on Chipper Jones that seemed to be a foot inside. You don't see many managers get ejected from a World Series game, but Cox wasn't shy under the bright lights of the Fall Classic in the Bronx.
After what clearly appeared to be a bad call on Marquis Grissom's slide into second, Cox jogged out there and gave every umpire who was in shouting view Terry Tata and Tim Welke, specifically a piece of his mind, while at the same time keeping Grissom from tossed. He also lost his temper enough that umps told him to hit the showers 54 times. Not only is he the winningest manager to never win a World Series, but he was also the manager for the two longest losing streaks in MLB history — 20 straight with the Expos in and 23 with the Phillies in He behaved himself for all 51 games until he was handed the keys to the full-time kingdom of the Tampa Bay Rays in How does someone with 2, managerial wins and three World Series rings get tossed out of 56 games?
Anderson even won a game that he refused to let his team play in! Dick Williams spent 21 seasons managing a lot of different MLB teams. He also loved getting on the bad side of the umps and was thrown out of 57 games. If your name is Bill Rigney, then the answer is yes.
Rigney managed three teams, retiring with a 1,, record. Despite being employed for so long, he never won a playoff game. No one knew how to get tossed from a game quite like Lou Piniella.
He is, after all, the manager behind one of the most famous ejections of all time. In protest, he ran out to first base, picked it up out of the ground, and tossed it into the outfield. Bruce Bochy was told to hit the showers early how many times?
Keep reading to find out! Clint Hurdle may have ended his managerial career with a losing record, but it was when he was winning that he got ejected from the most games. In his two worst seasons as a manager, Hurdle was only ejected once, despite only winning 40 percent of his games. Compare that to his two best seasons, when he won nearly 60 percent of his games, and you find out he was tossed ten times. One of the greatest managers in the history of baseball also happened to be one of the most prolific at getting tossed.
Joe Torre won four World Series championships in 29 seasons, retired with 2, wins, and was thrown out by umps 70 times. In , the team average went up to. After his major league playing career, Cox played one season for the Syracuse Chiefs and was a player-manager for the Single A Fort Lauderdale Yankees in even appearing in 3 games as a pitcher.
He then managed one year in Double A and four years in Triple A before coming to the majors as a coach. Bobby's first big league managing gig was with the Atlanta Braves from to He is credited with moving Dale Murphy from first base and catching to center field prior to the season.
He moved along to the Toronto Blue Jays from to , turning the expansion club from doormats to winners. When the Jays were eliminated in , Bobby almost immediately rejoined the Braves as General Manager. Upon firing Russ Nixon as manager in June , he announced he would be heading back to the dugout, allowing personnel guru and fellow Hall of Famer John Schuerholz to become GM.
Cox was no slouch in the general manager's chair himself. He was also the one to fleece the Detroit Tigers of John Smoltz , enticing them with "Dour Doyle Alexander for their pennant push in In , his first full season back at the club's helm, he turned the Braves from a last-place club into a pennant winner, with the team going all the way to Game 7 of the World Series before bowing to the right arm of Jack Morris and the Minnesota Twins.
He would lead the Braves to triumph over the Cleveland Indians in Overall, from to , he won five National League pennants, and fourteen consecutive division titles discounting the strike-shortened season during which the Braves finished second, but there was no postseason played , split between the NL West and NL East following realignment prior to The Braves finally missed a postseason in when the New York Mets bested them for the division.
Cox managed his last season in , returning to the postseason as the National League wild card. On August 12 , , the Braves retired his uniform number 6 and inducted him into the team's Hall of Fame.
He was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee on December 9 , and inducted in Contemporary managers Joe Torre and Tony LaRussa were also elected on the same ballot, all three by unanimous vote, and three players were to join them, including two of Cox's aces with the Braves, Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine , as well as slugger Frank Thomas. In , he took part in pre-game ceremonies for the Braves home opener on April 1st , then the next day he reportedly suffered a stroke and had to be hospitalized.
After sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers in the division series, the Braves' pitching fell behind the St. Louis Cardinals , three games to one. Facing elimination, the Braves offense outscored the Cardinals over the final three games and won the pennant.
Cox became the only manager in history to lose a series leading three games to one and win a series trailing three games to one. In game four, the Braves led in the fourth inning, but the Yankees came from behind.
Jim Leyritz homered to tie the game, and the Yankees tied the series with a win in eleven innings, Cox's team won the division title and upset the favored Houston Astros in three straight games in the division series. Cox's Braves have not advanced past the first round each of the last four seasons in which they made the playoffs.
In , the Braves won over games and led the wild card San Francisco Giants two games to one before dropping the last two. In , the Braves pushed the Chicago Cubs to the fifth game before falling. The following year, the Braves lost in the best-of-five Division Series for the third straight year. In , the Braves lost to the Astros, with the finale taking eighteen innings to decide. Cox has been named Manager of the Year four times , , , and and is one of only three managers to have won the award in both the American and National League.
He is also the only person to have won the award in consecutive years. Cox has also been named Manager of the Year by The Sporting News eight times , , , , , , , and On May 12, , Cox passed Sparky Anderson to become the fourth-winningest manager in major league history, with a record of 2, wins and 1, losses. He led the Braves to a division title every season from to , excluding the strike-shortened season; the Braves have competed in the National League East since and competed in the National League West prior to that.
He won a World Series Championship in In , he took sole possession of first place for most wins as a manager in Braves history. On July 20, , Cox was ejected for the st time during the 3rd inning in a Braves game against the Washington Nationals ; he currently holds the all-time record for most ejections set on August 14, with his nd , previously held by John McGraw. He was ejected in the ninth inning of game three of the World Series for throwing a batting helmet onto the field at the Toronto Skydome.
Cox was trying to slam the helmet against the lip of the dugout and missed, throwing it onto the field.
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