Yankees minor league manager ousted for female umpire

Rachel Balkovec, the first female manager in minor league baseball history, was ejected Friday night.

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

The referee who gave him the can was also a woman.

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Balkovec was discussing a decision at first base as the Tarpons trailed 1-0, saying the Daytona Turtles first baseman had come out of the pocket into a double play. But Isabella Robb wasn’t willing to accept it, so she kicked Balkovec out of the game.

Daytona scored two more runs in the top of the ninth, but Tampa rallied with four runs in the bottom half to win the game in walk-off form.

Tampa Tarpons manager Rachel Balkovec, the first full-time female manager in affiliate baseball history, looks on during a game against the Dunedin Blue Jays at George M. Steinbrenner Field on April 12, 2022 in Tampa, Florida . (Mike Ehrman/Getty Images)

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Balkovec is in his second season as manager of the Tarpons. She previously worked with the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros in strength and conditioning before joining the Yankees in 2019 as a minor league hitting coach.

Balkovec, a former softball catcher at Creighton and New Mexico, has a master’s degree in kinesiology from LSU and another in human movement sciences from Vrije University in the Netherlands.

Manager Rachel Balkovec of the Tampa Tarpons looks on before making her managerial debut on April 8, 2022 at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida. (New York Yankees/Getty Images)

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Tampa owns a 34-38 overall record this season, going 31-35 in the first half of the Florida State League season.

Associated Press contributed to this report.