Yankees female minor league manager ejected by woman umpire

Rachel Balkovec, the first female manager in minor league baseball historical past, was ejected on Friday night time.

Balkovec manages the New York Yankees‘ Single-A affiliate Tampa Tarpons.

The umpire who gave her the can was additionally a lady.

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Balkovec was arguing a name at first base whereas the Tarpons have been trailing 1-0, saying the Daytona Tortugas’ first baseman had come off the bag on a double play. However Isabella Robb wasn’t having it, so she threw Balkovec out of the sport.

Daytona scored two extra runs within the high of the ninth, however Tampa rallied for 4 runs within the backside half to win the sport in walk-off vogue.

Tampa Tarpons Supervisor Rachel Balkovec, the primary full-time feminine supervisor within the historical past of affiliated baseball, seems on throughout a recreation in opposition to the Dunedin Blue Jays at George M. Steinbrenner Subject on April 12, 2022, in Tampa, Florida. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photos)

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Balkovec is in her second season because the Tarpons’ supervisor. She beforehand labored with the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros in power and conditioning earlier than going to the Yankees in 2019 as a minor league hitting coach.

A former softball catcher at Creighton and New Mexico, Balkovec has a grasp’s diploma in kinesiology from LSU and one other in human motion sciences from Vrije College within the Netherlands.

Supervisor Rachel Balkovec of the Tampa Tampons seems on earlier than making her managerial debut on April 8, 2022, at Publix Subject at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida. (New York Yankees/Getty Photos)

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Tampa owns a 34-38 total document this season, doing 31-35 within the first half of the Florida State League season.

The Related Press contributed to this report.