After the benches cleared in the fourth inning of Game 7, things got even a little less sensible, as the umpires decided to issue warning to both dugouts as a result of Andrés Giménez getting hit by a Justin Wrobleski pitch and the subsequent hijinks.
Make no mistake, there’s no reason for warnings to ever be issued. If the umpires judge a pitcher intentionally threw at a hitter, they can eject him with or without any previous warning. If, after warnings are issued, the umpires are uncertain whether a pitcher is throwing at a hitter, they don’t have to eject anyone. Warnings don’t really serve any purpose, except to rile up the managers who simply don’t want to deal with them, and should have stopped being a thing decades ago.
