San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin looks on before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) 
San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin, right, argues with home plate umpire Brian O’Nora, left, after O’Nora said Colorado Rockies’ Elias Díaz was hit by a pitch in the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, July 19, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) 
San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin, left, talks to umpires after turning in the lineup card before facing the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game Sunday, July 21, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) 
San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin, center, talks with the umpire crew after turning in the lineup card before a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, July 21, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
DENVER | San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin wasn’t around for the finish Sunday as his team defeated the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
He didn’t even make it to the start, for that matter.
In an unusual scene, Melvin was ejected before the first pitch after he and bench coach Ryan Christensen delivered the lineup card to home plate umpire Alex MacKay.
“I just talked too much,” Melvin said following the Giants’ 3-2 victory. “Umpiring’s a hard job, I’m aware of that, just probably said too much. I didn’t plan that, it wasn’t choreographed. I probably went too far.”
San Francisco was coming off a 4-3 loss to the Rockies on Saturday night and a 7-3 loss on Friday.
Moments after Melvin was tossed, Jorge Soler led off Sunday’s game for the Giants with a 478-foot homer to center field, the longest in the majors this season.
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