Los Angeles Dodgers coach Larry Bowa ejected

Bowa: Not thinking outside the short fuse coaching box again.

Dodgers third base coach Larry Bowa was ejected in the sixth inning of Tuesday night’s game against the San Francisco Giants for arguing after he was told to stay within the boundaries of the coaching box.

...Umpire Ed Montague said it was “probably one of the dumbest ejections he’s had.

“We got a memo and an edict, and they’re adamant about the box and stuff,’’ the umpire said. “Don’t go up in front of the box toward home plate, and don’t get any closer to the foul lines. I told Bowa in the bottom of the fifth, because he got up close. And that’s what caught my eye. And I just told him, ‘Bo, you got the memo, we got the memo, and you’ve got to stay back.’ I went over and told Joe in-between innings what I told Bo. And Bo just said, ‘I’m going to do it the way I’ve always been doing it.’

“I said, ‘Bo, if you go up, I’m going to have to run you.’ And he said, ‘Do what you’ve got to do, and it is what it is.’ When he got up in front of it again, I said, ‘Bo, I told you once, now get back in the box.’ He argued it, and finally I said, ‘You’re gone.’ So I gave him every chance in the book and he defied it.’‘