BREAKING NEWS Moment furious Mets manager Carlos Mendoza ERUPTS at MLB officials before getting ejected from Yankees game
When Luis Torrens was struck out in the ninth inning despite the ball appearing to fall just outside the strike zone, Mendoza immediately ran onto the field in protest.
The Venezuelan erupted after making a beeline for the officials, gesturing furiously while shouting in their faces before he was swiftly ejected from the game.
In the end his team were beaten 6-4 by city rivals the Yankees in the third and final game of their latest Subway Series.
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- The Guardian
The US national team lost regional superiority, but gained some World Cup hope
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The USMNT stumbled into the Gold Cup on the back of a disastrous Nations League and a pair of all-too-simple defeats to Turkey and Switzerland on the eve of the tournament. Absent star forward Christian Pulisic and a raft of other stalwarts like Weston McKennie, Antonee Robinson, Sergiño Dest and basically any striker with a track record, expectations and enthusiasm had sagged to a low not seen in the better part of a decade. But on their way to the final, the US rediscovered the moxie and intensity it had misplaced more than a year ago. 'When you lose a trophy, it's really, really painful,' the US manager, Mauricio Pochettino, told reporters afterward, after lamenting what he saw as several suspect refereeing decisions that went against them. 'But the most important thing is to have our head up because I think the tournament was fantastic. We keep going, [this] is the way we want to build our journey to the World Cup. In this way, I have no doubt, we're going to be really, really competitive.' With what was effectively a B-team, the Americans found their fight and, along the way, a fair few players who may call into question the spots and roles of the men they filled in for. 'We found a very good group of players with the desire and the open mind to learn and to prove [themselves],' Pochettino said before the game. 'I need to say thank you to the players, because from day one they created an unbelievable atmosphere on the team – never one problem, never one issue between them.' This assessment stood in stark contrast to Pochettino's postmortem on the Nations League camp, when he accused the players of taking more interest in playing golf, going out for a meal or seeing family and friends than on performing on the field. This is where the roster watch gets interesting. Pochettino demonstrated throughout the Gold Cup that he's unmoved by players' pedigrees, starting NYCFC's Matt Freese in goal over Premier Leaguer Matt Turner and his 52 caps. Or relying on young and barely-proven Major League Soccer players over Brenden Aaronson, who, like Turner, is a 2022 World Cup veteran and has his own half century of appearances. The Argentine coach was entirely comfortable handing the keys to the likes of Diego Luna, the little-tested Real Salt Lake spitfire, and was repaid for his faith. If this Gold Cup squad was sort of an aberration of circumstance – Pulisic decided to rest; Robinson decided to get knee surgery; Dest wasn't fit; McKennie, Tim Weah and Gio Reyna were committed to the Club World Cup instead, and so on – something impressive grew in the void. 'There's been a lot of success this summer, how the team has grown,' said Chris Richards, who scored in the final and finally put one of the starting center back positions in a headlock going forward. 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While the US produced several scrambles in front of the Mexican goal through sheer stubbornness, their opponents were largely in control. Pochettino was perhaps too slow to react as El Tri tightened the screws on his overmatched team. Here's the glass-half-full view: Mexico competed with its A team, the squad likely to go to the World Cup. Yet the US gave them a good game before an overwhelmingly pro-Mexican crowd even without most of its attacking weapons. The abundance of joy and relief spilling from El Tri after its goals and on the final whistle was telling. Just over the course of this tournament, the US finally figured out how to utilize attacking midfielder Malik Tillman, witnessed the breakout of Luna, surprised all observers with the emergence of Sebastian Berhalter and Freese, and witnessed flashes of promise in forwards Patrick Agyemang and Damion Downs. 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