Running 2015 MLB Regular-Season Thread

It's just payback for this, probably.

 

It was headed for his lower leg until Cain jumped to try to get out of the way. Ventura and Herrera handled things poorly, but why does Kazmir get a pass when he was locked in, control-wise, except for the one pitch that happened to hit somebody in a series filled with beanballs and bad blood?

The umps and the baseball media were way too quick to forgive the A's and pile on the Royals in this case. Kazmir and Reddick did just as much to fan the flames as anyone on the Royals.

 

The fact that Joyce went into the Royals dugout looking for players to throw out...
I lost track of how many times Wakamatsu told him to "Fuck off"

 

This x100.

Royals have been hit, what, 14 times already? Rios is out for weeks because he got hit. KC is a little sensitive and I can understand why the Twins and A's don't like them. Their franchise are still bathing in the glory of the last decade when they were good and they couldn't win a playoff series unless it was against each other.

If Cain - KC's best hitter - doesn't get plunked in the first inning, Sunday is likely a clean game.

 

Don't forget Reddick promising retribution after Saturday's game. The entire baseball universe seems determined to erase that fact from existence. The A's threatened retribution and hit a guy right away in the next game, but I'm sure those two facts aren't related.

 

Oh I don't think anyone is ignoring that.

I think what's getting people a little rankled is the Royals acting like they are the first team that has ever been the victim of a hard slide.

A 100 mph heater to the head is pretty far out of bounds even for OLD SCHOOL!!!!! mentality.

 

A 100mph heater, numbers-high and a foot behind the batter, if we're being pedantic.

Herrera and Ventura were assholes. I'm not denying that. But I'm selling the pearl-clutching about how irresponsible Herrera was. Lawrie would have had to jump back to get hit.

 

LOL he threw it at his head, but not REALLY close to his head!

You're trying way too hard on this. If it fires the Royals up and gets them more of the whole team mojo, fine. But they were being little bitches the whole weekend.

BTW it was nice of Ventura to wait until he had already been bombed out of the game to get his pound of flesh. Manly.

 

Herrera came as close to hitting Lawrie in the head as Kazmir came to hitting Cain in the dick.

I also like the "Ventura should have hit him earlier" argument when the main Kazmir defense I've seen from A's nation (not here) is that Kazmir would have been insane to risk ejection by hitting a guy in the first inning.

 

Royals might have been little bitches but it worked on Sunday. Three in the 8th to steal the series.

 

And yet he did. I suppose you could say he was trying to go way inside, but personally I don't buy it.

The Baseball Codes wrote it all up. FWIW, and that's a great site, they say KC is mostly at fault.

On the Merits of Standing Up for One’s Teammates While Simultaneously Understanding When to Leave Well Enough the Hell Alone | The Baseball Codes

The one thing about Herrera's fastball is, he threw it to where a guy is supposed to and naturally inclined to bail out. Hitters take special exception to pitches there because not only can the pitch run into them, but they can run into the pitch.

 

One other thing, Circus -- Herrera threw TWO pitches at Lawrie.

Way, way out of bounds. I hope the Royals are very happy with themselves when Cain or Hosmer gets drilled in the neck.