Taylor Walls of the Tampa Bay Rays gets ejected on June 1, 2025. Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty. The player added, “But I think, like, the context clues around it ...

Tampa Bay Rays' Taylor Walls, center, is held back after he's ejected by Umpire Nic Lentz, left, for tapping his helmet after a strike call during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the ...

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls was ejected from Sunday’s game for what was perceived as a disrespectful gesture, and he went ballistic on the home plate umpire following the decision.

Tampa Bay Rays’ shortstop Taylor Walls tapped on his helmet after a play. The home plate umpire, Nic Lentz, took it as an automated ball-strike challenge system. In simple terms?

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls (6) was ejected by umpire Nic Lentz (59) after Walls tapped his helmet with his hand on a called third strike against the Houston Astros in the ninth inning ...

The series loss is the first for New York since it dropped two of three against the Boston Red Sox from May 19-21.

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls was ejected from Sunday's game for tapping his helmet. Walls, 28, was at bat when he was ejected by umpire Nic Lentz in the ninth inning of Tampa Bay's loss ...

Tampa Bay Rays' Taylor Walls, center, is held back after he's ejected by Umpire Nic Lentz, left, for tapping his helmet after a strike call during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the ...

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls was ejected from Sunday's game for tapping his helmet. Walls, 28, was at bat when he was ejected by umpire Nic Lentz in the ninth inning of Tampa Bay's loss ...

Tampa Bay Rays' Taylor Walls, center, is held back after he's ejected by Umpire Nic Lentz, left, for tapping his helmet after a strike call during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the ...

Tampa Bay Rays' Taylor Walls, center, is held back after he's ejected by Umpire Nic Lentz, left, for tapping his helmet after a strike call during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the ...

Tampa Bay Rays' Taylor Walls, center, is held back after he's ejected by Umpire Nic Lentz, left, for tapping his helmet after a strike call during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the ...