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Originally Posted by alnorth
A former teammate told the press that CQ told him that if Greinke ever hit him again, he'd rush the mound.
He gets hit in a situation where it is clear and obvious that it could not have possibly been intentional, yet he still rushes the mound. CQ had his mind made up about what he'd do if Greinke hit him again long ago.
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Quentin did not rush the mound until after Greinke lost his temper and yelled.
Even if he had said that to some teammate long ago, that does not mean that it was not a spontaneous decision.
I think the umpire and the catcher would have done more to intervene if Quentin was indicating a premeditated decision.
I have seen where a batter will start towards first so that the catcher and umpire think nothing is up and then charge the mound.
In this situation Quentin did not do anything like that, he acted like he was considering charging the mound without making any special effort to deke the catcher and umpire into complacency, and that Grienke asked for it by yelling at him.
That did not look much different from Mike Sweeney and Jeff Weaver. Sweeney did not make up his mind to charge the mound until Weaver screamed something.
If a pitcher hits a batter unintentionally, then why does that pitcher think that they improve the situation by yelling at the batter that just got plunked.
That is stupid. If it was an unintentional HBP, the better way to indicate that is to do something other than get an angry look and yell something at the batter.