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Originally Posted by penbrook
They were on Sunday night baseball and they were saying that was a change up he threw to Donaldson and all of the analysts were saying he didn't do it on purpose especially with a change up
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I very much doubt he did, but that's when you have to put yourself in Donaldson's shoes.
A changup looks like a fastball and when it's up and in, you spin the hell out. he didn't see that ball get caught and he damn sure didn't know it was a changeup when he reacted.
MLB Network spoke directly to Cain and Volquez looking to incite, however, and made it a special note of the fact that the Royals dugout emptied
immediately when Escobar got hit as though they were looking for
another confrontation. That was when the Jays responded in kind.
There was no need for the benches to empty at all. If you think it was okay for Volquez to hit Donaldson in the first after Moustakas got hit yesterday (arguable, but not an unfair statement), then after Tulo gets hit, the opposing SS getting hit in the legs should not have emptied the benches. The Royals, again, caused shit that didn't need to happen by ignoring a calculus that THEY established in the first inning.