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What did Mets’ Jesse Winker and Brewers’ Willy Adames yell at each other? Here’s what they said.

Emotions ran high for these former teammates.

During an intense opening game of the postseason for the New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers, two former teammates exchanged words.

Milwaukee’s Willy Adames and New York’s Jesse Winker played together during the 2023 season. Winker, a former MLB All-Star, played for just one season with the Brewers before he signed with the Washington Nations. He was traded to the Mets at the deadline.

But when matched up against his former team, emotions ran high for Winker. The ESPN broadcast showed a very heated back-and-forth between the Mets outfielder and the  Brewers infielder.

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While some lip reader have tried to interpret what was said in the heat of battle, it is always good to hear directly from the players.

Unfortunately, however, both have seemed fairly tight-lipped so far.

When asked what Adames said to him, Winker said “nothing” and did not look comfortable. He added:

“I don’t really want to speak on it. I just want to focus on the game tomorrow.”

This is a non-answer from Winker, but likely a smart strategy to not add more fuel to whatever fire may exist there.

Adames was also asked about what happened.

“I don’t know what was going through his head. He just started saying some stuff and I just said something back. I think that’s the kind of player he is and that’s what it is … That was surprising that he would say some stuff. But I guess that is part of his personality. It was just a little bit of a surprise to me.”

Although his answer was a bit longer, he did not reveal much either.

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The Brewers’ Willy Adames got ejected after a blatantly spiteful sequence from umpire Adam Beck

The Ump Show doesn’t get much worse than that.

MLB’s new rules are designed to speed up the game, but sometimes, umpires can weaponize those rules against the batter. Brewers shortstop Willy Adames certainly felt that umpire Adam Beck did just that on Saturday.

During Adames’ sixth-inning at-bat against the Angels’ Jaime Barría, the Brewers shortstop wanted timeout after a first-pitch ball was high and tight. Now, Adames let the pitch clock run down close to the eight-second cutoff. But he did appear to call timeout in time. Umpires aren’t required to grant a timeout to the batter, and Beck opted to let Barría continue with the pitch even as Adames left the box.

The problems really sparked by how Beck handled the situation. He not only didn’t grant Adames timeout, but he also missed the call, ruling that a high pitch was a strike.

Both the broadcast and MLB’s strike-zone chart had the pitch missing the zone.

As Adames returned to the box, he voiced his frustration towards Beck. And in that time, he didn’t become alert to the pitcher before the eight-second mark, so Beck signaled an automatic strike. That led to manager Craig Counsell being ejected for arguing.

Once Adames struck out swinging on the next pitch, he had more words for Beck and was ejected for the first time in his big-league career.

Between the no timeout, missed call, automatic strike and double ejections, the entire sequence was peak Ump Show. And fans weren’t pleased with Beck’s antics either. The umpire instigated the entire incident.

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