Coastal Carolina head coach ejected from College World Series in shocking moment

Coastal Carolina's season was completed without its head coach on the field. Kevin Schnall was ejected from Sunday's 5-3 loss to LSU in Game 2 of the College World Series championship for disputing balls and strikes.

Schnall stepped onto the field several steps in the first inning, flashed three fingers and seemed to mouth, "You missed three pitches," before being thrown out of Omaha's elimination game by home plate umpire Angel Campos.

The theatrics were preceded by an even more heated argument on the field, in which another umpire was left on the ground. Coastal Carolina first base coach Matt Schilling was also ejected during the brawl.

They were ejected for "prolonged arguing," the NCAA stated, which has a two-game suspension attached to it. That would have left Schnall and Schilling out for a winner-take-all Game 3, too.

But sixth-seeded LSU completed the three-game best-of-series in two games to win the eighth title in program history. LSU's Game 1 victory put an end to the 26-game winning streak that 13th-seeded Coastal Carolina began in the College World Series final.

Game 2 was even when Schnall and Schilling were both ejected, Schnall's position being filled by associate head coach Chad Oxendine. The ejections drew enraged responses on social media, such as from ESPN baseball insider Jeff Passan.

"There aren't a whole lot of combinations of words in the English lexicon that require booting a coach out of an elimination game in the Men's College World Series championship finals," Passan wrote on X. "And yet Coastal Carolina's Kevin Schnall — and first-base coach Matt Schilling — just got plunked in the first inning."

The Chanticleers pursued their second title, as they won the College World Series back in 2016.