- Feb 7, 2013
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I don't know if you have been following the recent series between Boston Red Sox v. Baltimore Orioles but there was an incident that brought out the "unwriiten" rules of baseball. One of the Orioles players, Manny Machado, slide hard into 2nd base and injured a Red Sox fielder. After that, Machado was thrown at 6 times in the series. In retaliation, a Orioles pitcher threw at a Red Sox batter and was thrown out of the game.
The unwritten rule is to allow the players to police themselves. For example, a player hits a home run and slowly trots around the bases "showing up" the pitcher, the next at bat he gets a fastball to the head. A player looks into the catcher to "sneek a peek" at where the catcher is setting up and he get a fastball to the ribs, etc. In retaliation, the other team's pitcher throws at the pitcher who threw at his player, and it goes on and on. A sort of vigilantism...
My personal opinion is the umpires enforce the rules of the game, not the players. IMO, if you intentionally throw at a batter you should get a signficant numbers of games suspended without pay. I think this would put a quick end to this nonsense and old school mentality.
What say you?
The unwritten rule is to allow the players to police themselves. For example, a player hits a home run and slowly trots around the bases "showing up" the pitcher, the next at bat he gets a fastball to the head. A player looks into the catcher to "sneek a peek" at where the catcher is setting up and he get a fastball to the ribs, etc. In retaliation, the other team's pitcher throws at the pitcher who threw at his player, and it goes on and on. A sort of vigilantism...
My personal opinion is the umpires enforce the rules of the game, not the players. IMO, if you intentionally throw at a batter you should get a signficant numbers of games suspended without pay. I think this would put a quick end to this nonsense and old school mentality.
What say you?