India, May 27 -- Detroit Tigers' Javier Baez clarified what caused him to lose it at the home plate umpire on Monday, saying that the reaction wasn't about the call.

Baez was so enraged by a called strike three that he had to be held back during the Tigers' 3-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Memorial Day.

After the game, Baez told reporters that he had only said that it wasn't "a f-king strike."

"That's the only thing I said. And then he said, 'Don't point at it. Walk out.' And then I said, 'What do you mean, walk out? I'm asking you something,' and then he just threw me out," Baez was quoted by the Detroit Free Press as saying.

The shortstop insisted that his reaction wasn't over the call but rather over the way the umpire spok...