Blue Jays pitcher Seung-hwan Oh is from South Korea and needs an interpreter to communicate with his teammates and coaches.

The umpiring crew in Sunday’s game between the Yankees and Blue Jays just had a problem with that.

While the team’s translator Eugene Koo joined Oh and Russell Martin to go over pitches, the umpiring crew convened on the meeting and told the translator to return to the dugout. Back in 2013, MLB owners approved a rule that would allow interpreters to join coaches and managers for mound visits — that apparently didn’t apply to player-to-player conferences.

As the umpires prevented the translator from doing his job, Blue Jays first base coach Tim Leiper was having none of that.

He shouted at the umpiring crew until he was ejected and threw a pair of sliding gloves on the field before heading to the clubhouse.

Leiper had every reason to be upset.

It made little sense for the umpiring crew to prevent a non-English-speaking player from properly communicating with his teammate. The online version of the MLB rulebook didn’t list a specific guideline for translators in mound visits. But if translator responsibilities are truly limited to just manager and coach visits, then MLB needs to take a look at that.

Player-to-player conferences are allowed for English-speaking players. Oh and every non-English speaker should be granted that same opportunity.