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Joe Girardi pulled a Billy Martin on Saturday.No, not by getting fired and immediately rehired. But an ejection led to a cla sic blow up from the Yankees' skipper.MORE: Legendary Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda hospitalizedAfter some jawing back and forth with the home plate umpire on balls and Trevor Hoffman Jersey strikes in the fifth inning of Sunday's Rays-Yankees matchup, Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild got ejected.Girardi followed soon after, and got his money's worth.Joe Girardi Eric Hosmer Jersey scoops dirt onto home plate after being ejected, and the home plate umpire leaves the dirt there. Bush league.[YES] #Yankees pic.twitter.com/CHVEYQap4T Sports Funhouse (@SportsFunhouse) May 20, 2017Umpire Scott Barry refused to give Girardi the satisfaction of cleaning home plate. (Side note: A bit unprofe sional).lmaooo the ump didn't clean the home plate at all pic.twitter.com/oRDwMBWqFV Sung Min Kim (@sung_minkim) May 20, 2017It has been an eventful, confusing day for the Rays and Yankees. Yankees' starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka got bombed, allowing six runs in three innings of work.Yankee reliever Tommy Layne drilled Rays outfielder Corey Dickerson later, and Yankees rookie phenom Aaron Judge got hit with a retaliatory pitch from Rays starter Matt Andriese.All this leads to one conclusion: We Freddy Galvis Jersey 're one ejection closer to computerized strike zones.