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Originally Posted by tk13
We went over this at the time, but I'm not going round and round for 200 more posts. The day before the Jays hit Cain and Moustakas. Buehrle hit Cain, and to that point he had 3 HBP the entire year... and I believe 2 of them were against the Royals. He's not exactly a wild thrower.
More importantly, they hit Moose and he didn't play in the next day's game. So yeah I thought hitting Donaldson was retaliation for that. Then we went round and round for 200 posts about how that's a horrible thing to do. Then all the Cards fans jumped in and said that's not baseball. Then I provided examples where this happens all the time... if you hit a guy and injure him, one of your players is going to get hit. And I even included an example where the Cards did it when Matt Holliday got busted up earlier this year.
I'm not offended that Syndergaard threw up and in, even though he basically said he was going to do it. If that's the way you want to play, that's fine. But you can't sit here and take the high road and say the Royals are the bad guys if they stand up for themselves.
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I don't know how the unwritten rules work in the AL but in the NL if some pitcher says he's got a surprise for a hitter the next day and then elevates the first pitch to a first pitch hitter...........either your pitcher retaliates or you are not taking care of your guys. This would not go unanswered by any NL team.
Pick your spot and put a fastball in Wrights ribs.
It may be different in the AL.