--- title: 6 Year Old Baseball Coach Throws Relatable Tantrum description: 6-year-old Coach Drake is the star member of the Kalamazoo Growlers summer baseball team — even when he throws tantrums. canonical: https://time.com/5629457/child-baseball-coach-kicked-out/ author: Rachel E. Greenspan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-18T15:22:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:35.241Z og:title: 6-Year-Old Coach Throws a Perfectly Legitimate Tantrum About Being Rejected From the Game og:description: This baseball team's star is better than any player og:url: https://time.com/5629457/child-baseball-coach-kicked-out/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 6-Year-Old Coach Throws a Perfectly Legitimate Tantrum About Being Rejected From the Game twitter:description: This baseball team's star is better than any player twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 6-Year-Old Coach Throws a Perfectly Legitimate Tantrum About Being Rejected From the Game by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Jul 18, 2019 3:22 PM UTC by [Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Jul 18, 2019 3:22 PM UTC Drake [lost it at a baseball game](https://time.com/5599078/drake-trolling-nba-finals/) the other day. No, not that Drake, but a 6-year-old miniature coach who is this team’s secret weapon. Coach Drake is an integral part of the Kalamazoo Growlers in Kalamazoo, Mich., a summer baseball team for college athletes. Though he’s usually found coaching his players, the little guy threw a bit of a tantrum between innings during Tuesday’s game. Apparently, he was kicked out of the game, and a video shared on the Growlers’ Twitter page shows he couldn’t handle it. > [](https://twitter.com/kzoogrowlers/status/1151167816122458117) Coach Drake is already beloved by Growlers fans and Twitter users alike and is a common star of the team’s social media pages. He even got to partake in the [now-controversial FaceApp age-yourself challenge](https://time.com/5629011/face-app-aging-schumer-ftc/), according to a [post on the team’s Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/kzoogrowlers/photos/rpp.1403603179864827/2897888960436234/?type=3&theater). The team shared another video of the “cutest mound visit ever” in a tweet on July 9 that showed Coach Drake giving players what we can imagine is the best pep talk ever. > [](https://twitter.com/kzoogrowlers/status/1148597741662195712) But it seems that Drake had a three-game suspension following that date, before returning to the field last week to keep up his hard work. > [](https://twitter.com/kzoogrowlers/status/1149788300540022795) He certainly takes after his name twin, the artist [Drake](https://time.com/5599078/drake-trolling-nba-finals/), whose sports fanaticism has stirred his [fair share of drama on courts and fields](https://time.com/5598602/drake-raptors-get-nba-finals-warning/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5629457/child-baseball-coach-kicked-out/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5629457/child-baseball-coach-kicked-out/"},"headline":"6-Year-Old Coach Throws a Perfectly Legitimate Tantrum About Being Rejected From the Game","datePublished":"2019-07-18T15:22:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:35.241Z","description":"This baseball team's star is better than any player","url":"https://time.com/5629457/child-baseball-coach-kicked-out/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Baseball","kids","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel E. Greenspan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5629457/child-baseball-coach-kicked-out/","name":"6-Year-Old Coach Throws a Perfectly Legitimate Tantrum About Being Rejected From the Game"}}]}] ```