Orioles' Coby Mayo criticized for baserunning tactic, and benches clear in Baltimore

The Baltimore Orioles' Coby Mayo took immoderate vigor Saturday during his team's 4-2 triumph implicit the Chicago White Sox. 

In the bottommost of the 4th inning, with 2 outs and a runner connected second, Mayo deed a azygous to near tract for his archetypal career MLB RBI. 

When Mayo attempted to beforehand to 2nd basal aft the hit, the White Sox threw the shot backmost successful and caught Mayo successful a rundown betwixt archetypal and 2nd base. 

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Lenyn Sosa (50) of the Chicago White Sox pushes Coby Mayo (16) of the Baltimore Orioles aft getting pushed successful a rundown successful the 4th inning that led to the benches clearing astatine Oriole Park astatine Camden Yards May 31, 2025, successful Baltimore.   (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Then Mayo appeared to effort and gully interference erstwhile helium ran retired of the baseline to debar the tag and ran into White Sox infielder Lenyn Sosa. Mayo fell to the crushed connected his backmost connected the infield writer and was tagged out. 

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Mayo past exchanged words with White Sox infielders Miguel Vargas and Sosa, and umpires stood adjacent them arsenic the speech intensified. Eventually, Mayo retrieved his helmet and returned to the O’s dugout connected the first-base line, but helium reached retired his close manus and shoved Sosa successful the thorax connected the way. Rojas past shoved Mayo from behind. 

The shoving prompted some benches and bullpens to clear, and the teams converged successful the mediate of the field. Umpires yet restored bid earlier thing got physical, and some teams retreated. 

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Coby Mayo, right, of the Baltimore Orioles pushes Lenyn Sosa of the Chicago White Sox successful a rundown successful the 4th inning that led to a bench-clearing incidental astatine Oriole Park astatine Camden Yards May 31, 2025, successful Baltimore.   (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Mayo was criticized for the stunt connected societal media, with galore calling his actions "bush league."

"Obviously, conscionable trying to get to 2nd basal and trying to get into scoring presumption for Heston [Kjerstad]. [They cut] it disconnected and got into a rundown. Obviously, conscionable being told successful the insignificant leagues to effort to enactment successful a rundown, and I thought helium was successful the baseline, and [I was] trying to get immoderate contact. Didn’t mean for it to escalate. I wasn’t trying to bash that, it conscionable did," Mayo told reporters. 

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