File:Yonder Alonso batting three separate photos in 2019.jpg

English: Here is a three-photo collage that looks like three separate photos on my photostream, but they tell a story, so I put them together. I wish I was more creative at this sort of thing, but I don't have a frequent enough urge to do this to learn anything about doing it better.

In the image at left, you see White Sox first baseman Yonder Alonso taking what he thinks is ball 4 but what the umpire says is strike 3. Now, I got lucky enough with this image to get the baseball just as it was passing by Yonder, and from where I'm sitting, it looks like Yonder's right, that pitch is high and should be called a ball. (For non-baseball people, a "ball" is a pitch outside the target area the pitcher's supposed to aim for that the batter doesn't swing at. Four balls in an at-bat draws a walk, and the batter gets to go to first base for free.) But I make two concessions with my take. One, I'm sitting 285 feet away and looking at this from the side about 70 feet above the surface of the field. That's a long way away and at a bad angle. Two, I'm very bad at telling balls and strikes anyway. The umpire, on the other hand, was right there, and he has baseballs thrown at his head for a living. He does this more than me, so I'm going to go with his call.

Yonder Alonso felt differently, so he decided to have a discussion with the umpire. This discussion quickly grew heated, and no team wants any of its players to get into a heated discussion with an umpire, especially when they're leading and the at-bat doesn't matter. So it only took a second for a couple of other players and team manager Rick Renteria (the guy in red) to come running out and try to put some distance between Yonder and the umpire. Fortunately, they all succeeded in calming everybody down, and nobody got tossed.