Wednesday, March 5, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
Umpires did not wait long to get tough under their get-tough policy.
A day after umps vowed they wouldn't take any lip from anyone on the field, Seattle Mariners manager Lou Piniella was thrown out of Tuesday's exhibition game against Milwaukee in Chandler, Ariz.
What prompted the rare spring training ejection? Piniella merely asked second base umpire Ted Hendry to stop chatting with young shortstop Andy Sheets.
"I told him, 'Leave him alone. Let him concentrate,'" Piniella said. "He (Hendry) thought I was getting on him."
Major league umpires, still upset over the Roberto Alomar spitting incident, announced Monday that they don't plan to stand for any guff from players or managers this season.
"That's exactly what Hendry told me, that they were going to be tougher," Piniella said.
Hendry left the ballpark without speaking to reporters. Brewers manager Phil Garner supported Piniella's side of the story.
"Lou said, 'Don't talk to my shortstop, let him concentrate,' and Ted said, 'You're outta here,'" Garner said. "There was no cursing, no nothing. It had nothing to do with an argument or with a play. We couldn't believe it. He didn't do anything."
"So, that's the way it's going to be," Garner said.
John Jaha homered twice and Jose Valentin and Dave Nilsson also homered for Milwaukee, which led 10-1 after two innings.
Lee Tinsley hit a three-run homer for Seattle, and Russ Davis and Chris Sabo each had two-run shots. Trailing 13-6, the Mariners rallied for eight runs in the eighth inning, capped by pinch-hitter Brian Raabe's sacrifice fly.
* MARLINS 7, INDIANS (ss) 3: Pat Rapp pitched three scoreless innings and Florida improved to 5-0 this spring. Herbert Perry went 3-for-3 with a home run for Cleveland's split squad at Winter Haven, Fla.
* BRAVES 3, ASTROS 2: Tony Graffanino, battling for an infield reserve spot, doubled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as Atlanta beat Houston at West Palm Beach, Fla.
* REDS 10, BLUE JAYS 2: Bret Boone homered twice, doubled and scored three times as Cincinnati topped Toronto at Plant City, Fla.
* PHILLIES 13, YANKEES (ss) 5: Las Vegan Mark Parent and pinch-hitter Derrick May homered during a nine-run fourth inning that led Philadelphia over New York's split squad at Clearwater, Fla.
* TWINS 8, WHITE SOX 5: Scott Stahoviak hit a two-run homer and Minnesota scored six times in the fifth inning to beat Chicago at Sarasota, Fla.
* ROYALS 5, TIGERS 4: Chili Davis homered for Kansas City in its win over Detroit at Haines City, Fla.
* METS 6, EXPOS 0: Carlos Baerga, slowed by a sore right elbow, doubled and singled as New York defeated Montreal at Port St. Lucie, Fla.
* CUBS 9, GIANTS 8: Sammy Sosa, who homered in the previous three exhibition games, tripled and doubled as Chicago beat San Francisco at Mesa, Ariz.
* ORIOLES 7, DODGERS 1: Pete Incaviglia, Lenny Webster, Jeffrey Hammonds and Jeff Reboulet hit home runs, leading Baltimore over Los Angeles at Vero Beach, Fla.
* PADRES 16, ANGELS 5: Rickey Henderson homered, doubled, singled and drove in four runs as San Diego Padres won in Peoria, Ariz. Anaheim is 0-5 in exhibition play, having given up 59 runs and 84 hits.
* ROCKIES 5, ATHLETICS 3: Andres Galarraga hit Colorado's first homer of the exhibition season and added two singles against Oakland in Phoenix.
* YANKEES (ss) 5, INDIANS (ss) 3: David Wells pitched three scoreless innings in his New York debut and Tino Martinez hit a grand slam in a split-squad game in Tampa, Fla. Tony Fernandez hit two home runs for Cleveland.
* CARDINALS 9, PIRATES 7: John Mabry and Tom Pagnozzi each had three hits and St. Louis scored seven runs in the sixth inning to beat Pittsburgh at St. Petersburg, Fla. Chad Hermansen homered twice and drove in four runs for the Pirates.
* RED SOX 6, RANGERS 5: Rudy Pemberton hit a two-run triple as Boston beat Texas at Fort Myers, Fla. The Red Sox are 4-0 this spring.
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