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In sports, an ejection (or send-off) is a disqualifying action assessed to a player or coach by a game official (such as a referee or umpire), usually for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Many ejections occur for such actions as fighting (or attempting to instigate a fight) and persistent arguing with a game official. Usually, a warning is given to the offender before he/she is actually ejected.
When the offender is ejected, he/she must leave the immediate playing area; in most cases, this means the locker room or other part of the venue out of sight of the playing area. If a player or coach refuses to cooperate, additional sanctions may be levied (such as forfeiting a contest or being suspended).
A player or coach may be "ejected" in any sport, but the most common include baseball, basketball, American football and ice hockey. In baseball, because there is no penalty for being ejected for arguing other than loss of pay for the game from which the player or manager was ejected, many umpires are very quick to "throw the hook" on any manager or player willing to argue with them, regardless of persistence.
=Conditions for ejection by sport=
Basketball
In NBA and most other basketball games, a player or coach is ejected from the game if he accumulates two technical fouls over the course of the game, except when the technical foul is not of an unsportsmanlike nature. Participants who commit fouls of violence are ejected summarily regardless of the number of technical fouls accumulated. Ejected players must leave the court area for the remainder of play.
A significant rule change was made in 1981, the NBA eliminated the ejection of a coach for three technical fouls caused by an illegal defense. Also, in the NBA, ejections are not permissable if a technical foul is caused by an excessive timeout, delay of game, or accidental departure from the coach's box.
Baseball
In baseball, a player, coach or manager may be ejected from a game for unsportsmanlike conduct. The ejectable offense may be an excessively heated or offensive argument with an umpire, malicious game play (especially pitchers attempting to strike batters with the ball), using banned substances (such as a corked bat or doctoring a ball), or fighting. A common understanding between players and umpires is that they are allowed a certain level of argument, but the player is never allowed to question an umpire's judgement of balls and strikes without risking ejection. Managers have been known to engage in raving arguments with umpires to provoke an ejection, in hopes of inspiring a rally from his team.
Currently, the Oakland Athletics hold more ejections than any other team this season, possibly due to hot-tempered personalities and stricter rule enforcements by umpire council chairman Sean Christy.
Association football (soccer)
In football, a player is sent-off by the referee showing them a red card if they commit a send-off offense or have committed a second cautionable (yellow card) offense having already received a yellow card in the same game.
=Additional penalties= In some instances, a player or coach who is ejected must serve a suspension. Often, this is one game for the first offense, with harsher penalties depending on subsequent ejections and the severity of the offense, or when they purposefully attemp hurting another player, a coach or a referee.
Sometimes in professional sports, a fine may be sanctioned against a player or coach.
=See also=
"Ejection (sports)"