MLB doesn't like the Dodgers' bubble machine

When a Los Angeles Dodgers player hits a home run in the confines of his own ballpark, the team celebrates with a bubble machine in the dugout.

Apparently, the soapy bubble beauty didn't go over very well with Major League Baseball, reports the Los Angeles Times. Before Tuesday's game against the Angels at Dodger Stadium, MLB executive vice president Joe Torre told the team to stop using the machine.

But the memo wasn't entirely received.

When Juan Uribe hit a home run in the second inning, the Dodger Stadium video board flashed an image with the words "Bubble Machine."

As Uribe trotted around the bases, the players gathered for the dugout celebration. Uribe danced with Hanley Ramirez, but the bubble machine was conspicuous in its absence.

Andre Ethier thought the batteries were dead, or that there was no more bubble solution. A.J. Ellis thought someone forgot.

Dee Gordon revealed the origins of the bubble machine earlier this week when he visited The Refinery: Baseball and Softball Training Facility in L.A.

"The story is, we asked Matt Kemp to throw us a foam party after we clinched the playoffs last year," Gordon said, via Dodger Nation. "He didn’t throw the foam party so now every time somebody homers, we have our own foam party.”

As the Times notes, the bubble machine returned to action Wednesday at Angel Stadium, with the celebratory floating spheres emerging from the dugout after Kemp's second-inning homer.