Thursday, April 29, 2010
O's/Yankees
Nice to see the Orioles pitcher from yesterday come out and say he didnt mean to drill Posada, and was sorry it happened. It drives me crazy when pitchers unintentionally hit somebody but still stand there looking like an asshole, which only stokes a fire that doesn't exist. I know there's a code of toughness that players follow, but 90% of hit batters are unintentional. You're throwing a ball from 60 feet away at 90 mph and demanding that it move in several different directions by the time it hits the plate - the odds of it hitting someone who's standing there should be such that it's okay for the pitcher to wave at the batter "sorry, that was an accident."
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Some pitchers actually apologize in their own way: a look to the hitter as they walk to first, or the catcher briefly accompanying the hitter along the baseline and letting him know it was unintentional. But standing motionless, looking towards home or, worse yet, defiantly taking a few steps towards the plate--with a here I am, you got a problem?, kinda vibe--is a recipe for trouble.
Also, fwiw, the O's have always come across as a classy bunch of guys, IMO, so...
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