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Originally Posted by eDave
You are naive if you don't think those were intentional. Even if we were brushing them back.
I support it but I'm surprised you don't see that.
FWIW, Hamas host great game day threads and has always been very cordial to me.
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The 3rd inning pitch was a changeup. Most changeups, Volquez included, are supposed to dive. I find it incredibly hard to believe he was trying to hit a guy with a changeup in the head. That would be very difficult to do.
You could argue he was trying to brush Donaldson off the plate in the 7th inning, but that's not illegal. Everybody does that. If you're sitting here arguing, like Donaldson and our friendly Cards fans, that he was trying to take his head off and load the bases for Bautista in a 2 run game... that would be dirty, and stupid. You're basically saying we were okay with throwing the game just to knock Donaldson's head off. If he really wanted to do that, he would've done it with the next pitch. Instead he struck Donaldson out.