Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

Wilson got suspended because afterwards he came out and said, paraphrasing -- you're damn right I hit him on purpose.

 

Marlins are going to catch the Rockies.

 

It matters that they're in a pennant race because Betances has every reason NOT to intentionally throw at the first batter he faces. He knows he'd get tossed and the Yankees needed his arm to try to win the game. It simply makes no logical sense that Betances - with no reputation as a head hunter - would decide to hit the first batter he faces in the head when the Yankees are still trying to win.

Wilson had thrown his full inning and was going to come out anyway. And then he said:
"With me hitting a guy in the leg, it's what I have to do and that's what I did," Wilson said. "Fortunately for me I know where my pitches are going, and I hit a guy in the leg today to take care of my teammates and protect them."


Obviously MLB agreed that Wilson intentionally threw at Frazier and Betances did not.

 

You honestly believe that the pitch just got away from him?

 

Yep.

 

I'm going to guess you also believed Clemens and Bonds were clean. That Lance Armstrong was just amazing and would never dope.

 

Nope.

 

Those are more plausible than the pitch just got away from him.

 

FWIW, McCann and the umpire believe Betances as well.
"I don't think it was intentional," McCann said. "At that point in the game, Miggy was thrown at, Sanchez had been hit, and at least in my mind, the retaliation was over. I don't think that he was trying to hit me on purpose."

"I threw him out and that was to keep control of the game," umpire crew chief Dana DeMuth said. "And the reason why it took a minute or so, was because I wanted to get the players apart. Once I got Detroit going to their dugout and New York going to their dugout, then I informed him that he was ran. It wasn't necessarily of him intentionally beaning the batter, but to keep control of the situation, I deemed it necessary that he went."

 

Sure they are.

 

Go Yankees.

 

I'm sure McCann and DeMuth were thinking the same thing.