TORONTO - First Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista took a chunk out of the dugout wall with his bat, then he tore a strip off home plate umpire Bill Welke, and finally he sent some of his accoutrements out on the field in protest.
For his troubles, he may have earned himself some discipline from Major League Baseball.
Bautista's blow up came on a frustrating Friday for the Blue Jays, who lost for the fifth time in seven outings, 6-1 to the Tampa Bay Rays.
Bautista had issues with Welke's strike zone all night, but things came to a head in the sixth, when Bautista struck out for the third time against James Shields, several pitches after a called strike two the right-fielder didn't like.
He returned to the dugout, pounded his bat into the back wall in an impact audible throughout the Rogers Centre, and then muttered something that didn't look very polite at Welke, who ejected him immediately after.
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Once tossed, he sent his bat, helmet, elbow pad and a water bottle onto the field before heading into the clubhouse.
Acting manager Don Wakamatsu, who was just about to begin arguing with Welke, was left to shift gears and try to calm Bautista down instead.
The outburst and possibility of discipline made a bad night even worse for the Blue Jays (66-65), who fell to 4-8 against the Rays (71-59) this season before a crowd of 20,491.
Brett Lawrie's fifth homer opened the scoring in the second but it was all downhill from there, as rookie Henderson Alvarez (0-2), who surrendered a two-run shot to Desmon Jennings in the third and solo blasts to Evan Longoria in the fourth and sixth innings.
Matt Joyce added another solo shot in the seventh off Joel Carreno to make it 5-1, and later scored on Wil Ledezma's wild pitch in the ninth.
Alvarez allowed four runs on four hits and two walks in his six innings of work, striking out six.
Shields (12-10), meanwhile, allowed just a run on seven hits and a walk while striking out 12 in his 10th complete game of the season.
Bautista, who also went down looking in the first and swinging in the third, is the fourth Blue Jays player ejected this season, joining Jose Molina, Jon Rauch and Yunel Escobar.
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