Latest Mets ejection has a link back to another crucial moment in the season

It’s not always easy to remember the moments when players or coaches are ejected. This year’s New York Mets have three we’ll recall. There was, of course, the Edwin Diaz ejection for the sticky substance at Wrigley Field. Carlos Mendoza getting tossed on Friday against the Milwaukee Brewers could very well be a moment we remember depending on how the season ends. 

Thrown out in the fourth inning after Francisco Alvarez was aggressively called out on strikes by a pitch so low you’d swear it was dancing to a Flo Rida song, it marked only the second time this year Mendoza was ejected.

No, that’s not Enrico Palazzo behind the plate. It’s Ramon De Jesus who, ironically enough, was involved in the other most infamous Mets ejection of the year.

What did the Mets ever do to Ramon De Jesus?

Thanks to @MetsJetsNetsNY who seems to have the memory of an aunt (they remember everything!), recall allowed them to point out how it was indeed De Jesus who ejected Jorge Lopez back in May.

The obvious difference was De Jesus was at third base during this ejection. A rarity to see anyone but the home umpire throw someone out, De Jesus’ body language in both examples come off as emotionally reactive instead of the stereotypical stoic presence we’d expect from an umpire even while their mother is being insulted to their face.

If you believe history can repeat itself, perhaps this is one of those moments where a glitch in the matrix involved De Jesus helps alert us. Or maybe there’s a conspiracy against the Mets altogether.

De Jesus got behind on the day prior to throwing out Lopez. He didn’t squeeze Mets pitchers the way he did Sean Manaea. In fact, the Mets walked only one batter and so did the Dodgers.

Because everything can be tracked these days, umpire scorecards can even give us insight into how a particular umpire is at his job. Although it doesn’t include Friday’s game between the Mets and Brewers, we do find De Jesus on the third of three pages in umpire accuracy ranking at 97.3%.

Ironically enough, the umpires with many of the best scores are ones of names that aren’t so recognizable. Quinn Wolcott, Alex Tosi, and Gabe Morales lead the way at 99.4%. Who are these angels with 20/20 vision?

It’s up to the Mets to accept what happened on Friday, smile that the Arizona Diamondbacks lost as well, and rally around the conspiracy against them. Don’t let the lizard people win.