Pirates' Brandon Lowe ejected after ABS challenge was disallowed, leading to fly out

The Automated Balls and Strikes (ABS) strategy has provided its ain acceptable of challenges during the 2026 season, but players and managers alike person learned, that successful baseball, it is the information – arsenic agelong arsenic the umpire tin spot that a situation has been made.

Two-time All-Star Brandon Lowe learned the hard mode during the Pittsburgh Pirates' 10-9 triumph implicit the Minnesota Twins connected Saturday. He flied retired successful the 4th inning and was ejected.

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Pittsburgh Pirates' Brandon Lowe rounds the bases aft hitting a three-run location tally disconnected Chicago Cubs pitcher Jameson Taillon during the 3rd inning successful Pittsburgh connected May 27, 2026. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Lowe tried to situation a onslaught telephone successful the bottommost of the 4th inning. Home sheet umpire Alex Tosi didn’t look astatine Lowe arsenic helium tapped his helmet to awesome a challenge. Tosi disallowed the situation and appeared to explicate to Pirates manager Don Kelly wherefore it wasn’t granted.

As Lowe rounded archetypal connected the alert out, helium was tossed by archetypal basal umpire Jordan Baker. It was Lowe’s archetypal ejection of his career.

"Kind of a bittersweet archetypal ejection, I guess, if we're looking astatine ejections arsenic a whole," helium said, via MLB.com. "But yeah, I was conscionable frustrated with myself, and fto retired my vexation to myself, and got thrown retired for it. I didn't adjacent recognize that I was thrown retired until I was astir three-quarters of the mode backmost to the dugout, and saw (hitting manager Jonny Tucker) benignant of pointing towards archetypal base."

Pittsburgh Pirates 2nd baseman Brandon Lowe is congratulated by archetypal baseman Spencer Horwitz aft hitting a solo location tally against the St. Louis Cardinals during the archetypal inning astatine Busch Stadium successful St. Louis, Mo., connected May 21, 2026. (Jeff Curry/Imagn Images)

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Kelly told reporters that it was explained to him that the situation was disallowed due to the fact that it was determined to beryllium dugout-influenced.

"That was conscionable total, similar Jordan did not recognize what (Lowe) was saying, and wholly overreacted, I thought," Kelly said. "Lowe was upset that helium thought that helium had swung astatine shot four, and Jordan thought that helium was yelling astatine the home-plate umpire, and it was a full misunderstanding."

Pittsburgh Pirates' Brandon Lowe celebrates with Konnor Griffin aft some scored connected a treble by Bryan Reynolds disconnected Chicago Cubs pitcher Jordan Wicks during the archetypal inning successful Pittsburgh connected May 26, 2026. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

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Lowe is starring the Pirates successful location runs with 14. He was 1-for-3 with a tally scored earlier helium was tossed from the game.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.