... on May 4, 1980, Dodgers at Phillies. From Retrosheet, here’s what happened:

The Dodgers were visiting Philadelphia and the top of the first inning was not Dallas Green’s best day on the way to the World Series championship. Davey Lopes singled and Rudy Law reached on an infield error. After Reggie Smith popped out, Law stole second base. Steve Garvey reached on an infield single, scoring the first run of the game. Dusty Baker then hit into a force out leaving runners on first and third but had batted out of turn. Green came out and pointed out the fact that the proper batter had not hit. Thus Ron Cey was called out, the runners restored to their previous bases and Baker batted again. This time he hit a three-run homer to left. Green now was very upset saying that Baker should not have batted believing according to newspaper accounts that Baker’s force out should count and Cey should be ruled out . He was ejected from the game and protested the game. The protest was denied as the rules were followed correctly. The incorrect decision was Green’s when he did not take the out on Baker’s first trip to the plate. The Dodgers eventually won the game 12-10.

That page also has the description of what happened at Wrigley Field on April 16, 2004:

In the top of the seventh inning, Cubs manager Dusty Baker intended to place two new players in the lineup with a double switch but failed to tell Umpire C.B. Bucknor. When the Cubs batted in the bottom of the inning, shortstop Ramon Martinez came to the plate in the ninth spot in the order and doubled. The Reds protested that the Cubs were batting out of order. Pitcher Kent Mercker, the proper batter, was called out. Baker argued with the umpires but was told that the call stood. Yelling & screaming, he tossed his lineup card on the ground and was ejected by Bucknor. Baker threw his hat, walked away and returned; he tossed his hat again, stomped to the dugout and kicked some items in the on deck circle before finally leaving the field. The Cubs won in the bottom of the ninth, 11-10, when Sammy Sosa and Moises Alou hit back-to-back homers to end the game. When Baker arrived home that day, his son called him “Mad Dog.”

on the stupid. The guy is gone. He doesn’t manage here any more. Let’s just let it go. Some of the things that Lou does (Overusing Marmol) would be grounds for firing if Dusty did them. It’s all relative to who is managing your team. I for one would be happy if I never saw another Dusty reference on this blog.

I noticed that Corey Patterson got the start for the Reds on Saturday against Johan Santana. Not surprisingly, when I saw the highlights on Fox, they showed Corey whiffing repeatedly. Big shock.

I like how Patterson found a way to make an out without even leaving the dugout.

I always wanted desperately for Corey to succeed. Same way with Dusty. But since they’ve been shown the door, I now want the Cub orgnaization to look justified in the decision and if the two in question do poorly; the Cubs look justified.

Things are now going SO badly for them though, that there seems no further point in wishing them ill—the team looks pathetic. The good news is that their horse’s patooka announcer Marty B deserves every stinkin’ bit of it.

I’ll also say on the 2004 out of order incident-i remember Dusty blaming the ump during and after the incident, but the speed in which the opposition jumped on it demonstrated to me that the error was Dusty’s without a doubt. The ump and the opposition both knew Dusty had goofed immediately-he was embarassed and needed a scapegoat. We’ve all done that….scapegoats go all the way back to the days of father Abraham!

I was listening to it on the radio and Ramon Martinez hit a lead off double with the Cubs down late. Then the umps declared Ramon out because they batted out of order. And then Dusty went nuts.