LSU Tigers ladies’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey did extra than simply throw out the primary pitch on the Savannah Bananas sport in Baton Rouge over the weekend.
She obtained ejected. At the least within the Bananas’ method.
Mulkey, who’s trying ahead to creating one other nationwide title run together with her Tigers as No. 3 seed within the NCAA Tournament, threw out an awesome first pitch. Nevertheless, the umpire known as it a ball as a substitute of a strike.
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Head coach Kim Mulkey of the LSU Woman Tigers towards the Virginia Tech Hokies through the NCAA Girls’s Basketball Match Ultimate 4 semifinal sport at American Airways Middle on March 31, 2023, in Dallas. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Photos)
And as we’ve seen on the court docket, Mulkey can get animated.
Because the Bananas’ catcher congratulated Mulkey on a pleasant throw, she was targeted on yelling on the umpire. Issues obtained extra heated when she began kicking grime his method, and pointed at house plate to indicate the place her first pitch crossed.
The umpire had sufficient and tossed her from the sport. The gang was cheering for Mulkey, who continued to offer the umpire a chunk of her thoughts.
However all the things modified when Mulkey and the umpire obtained face-to-face. The umpire grabbed Mulkey’s arm and raised it like a wrestler profitable a match to indicate the group that it was all a skit, which is what Bananas baseball is all about.
Head coach Kim Mulkey of the LSU Woman Tigers speaks throughout a press convention after beating the Iowa Hawkeyes 102-85 through the NCAA Girls’s Basketball Match championship sport at American Airways Middle on April 2, 2023, in Dallas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Photos)
It’s good for Mulkey to blow off some steam earlier than getting right down to enterprise within the NCAA Match.
Issues didn’t go how LSU wished within the SEC Match, the place they fell to the undefeated South Carolina Gamecocks within the ultimate. It additionally obtained heated for actual on the finish of the sport, when South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso shoved LSU’s Flau’Jae Johnson, beginning a skirmish that ended up with Johnson’s brother being arrested for coming into the court docket.
The Tigers will tackle No. 14 Rice within the first spherical of the match on Friday in Albany, New York.
LSU coach Kim Mulkey reacts through the SEC Girls’s Basketball Match Championship sport on the Bon Secours Wellness Enviornment in Greenville, South Carolina, Sunday, March 10, 2024. (Ken Ruinard/employees/USA In the present day Community)
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LSU is in the identical bracket as No. 1 Iowa, the staff they met within the ultimate final 12 months. There’s a probability they meet within the Elite Eight in the event that they win their first three video games within the match.
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