Fans Stunned as Bat Boy ‘Thrown Out’ During Wild Minor League Game

A minor league baseball game turned into an unexpected circus on Thursday night after a Single-A bat boy appeared to get ejected in one of the strangest scenes fans have seen all season.

The drama unfolded during the Great Lakes Loons’ 7-1 win over the Quad Cities River Bandits when home plate umpire Richy Arredondo seemed to give the bat boy the boot — yes, the bat boy.

In a now-viral clip, the bat boy handed Arredondo a few baseballs, then glanced back at him, apparently doing something subtle that set the umpire off. Arredondo looked baffled, gestured in disbelief, and then appeared to toss him from the game.

Fans erupted as the announcers struggled to process what had just happened. “Wow. Did he throw out the ball boy?” one of them said. “If that’s true, that’s a first for me.”

Oddly, the official box score only lists two ejections — River Bandits catcher Canyon Brown and manager Jesus Azuaje — but the video shows Arredondo making a third motion that seemed aimed squarely at the bat boy.

The chaos happened in the seventh inning. Brown had been tossed after a heated mound conference following a walk, and Azuaje got ejected moments later after arguing a passed ball. But the third “ejection” came after a balk gave the Loons a 7-1 lead — and that’s when Arredondo appeared to lose patience with the bat boy.

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According to the @MILBEjections account on X, the bat boy may have been removed under rule 6.04(a) for “trying to incite, by word or sign, a demonstration by spectators.”

The video has since gone viral, with fans debating whether this was a misunderstanding, a prank gone wrong, or the rarest ejection in baseball history.