Ultimately the video game resumed and Chapman struck out Brosseau to end the video game, then stared him down. The Rays are currently first in the AL East, 3 1/2 video games up on the second-place Yankees. He went 0– 4 with a walk and allowed 2 runs in two innings. This was just the 12th time in history a gamer has actually invested time at those two positions in the exact same video game– and extremely, the last time came 3 days earlier, when the Mariners Tim Lopes went 1– 4 and allowed two runs in one inning in a 16– 3 loss to the Angels.
Left fielder Alex Dickerson went 5– 6 with 3 house runs, 2 doubles and a walk; second baseman Donovan Solano went 4– 6 with two doubles; and shortstop Brandon Crawford went 3– 6 with a double.
The most intense part of Tuesdays Yankees-Rays clash came after the final pitch.
With 2 outs and the bases empty in the ninth inning, up 5– 3, New York better Aroldis Chapman fired a 101-mph fastball at the head of Tampa Bay pinch player Mike Brosseau. Brosseau dodged the pitch by inches; catcher Kyle Higashioka ducked, too, as it flew to the backstop.
The umpires cautioned both groups. (With 2 outs and no one on in the very first, Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka had actually hit Rays 3rd baseman Joey Wendle, who chuckled derisively as he trotted to. At 95.1 miles per hour, it was the hardest pitch Tanaka threw all night.) Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash stormed out of the dugout and complained bitterly to crew chief Chad Fairchild: If you believe it was deliberate enough to alert us, you should toss him out of the game. Fairchild let Cash rant, then ejected him. Ultimately the video game resumed and Chapman struck out Brosseau to end the game, then stared him down. Both groups spilled out onto the field and circled until the umpires separated them.
Later, Brosseau said, “If there was any intent behind it, and they desired to send another message [after striking Wendle], I think they made their point.”
He insisted to press reporters that the pitch had been purposeful. “Its poor judgment, poor training, its just bad teaching,” he stated.
New York supervisor Aaron Boone responded, through press reporters, “Thats quite scary comments. I do not believe thats right at all. But Im not gon na get into it today.”
Chapman, through a Yankees spokesperson, declined to make himself offered to the media.
The Yankees have actually grumbled about the Rays technique of pitching very first baseman D.J. LeMahieu inside; the Rays have actually grumbled back. “We have a little bit of history of chirping and certain things that have gone on in between the white lines,” Tampa Bay center fielder Kevin Kiermaier told reporters on Sunday, prior to the series started.
After Tuesdays video game, he echoed himself: “We dont like them,” he said. “They dont like us.”
The Rays are currently first in the AL East, 3 1/2 video games up on the second-place Yankees. The teams take on for the last time this regular season on Wednesday. It will be in the ALCS if they fulfill again.
Quick Hits
A year earlier, the second sentence would have appeared more not likely than the. On Tuesday, Miami beat the Blue Jays 3– 2 to move to 16– 15 and remain connected with the Phillies for 2nd place in the NL East.
– Reds DH Matt Davidson started Tuesdays video game as the designated player and ended it as the pitcher. (Cincinnati lost to the Cardinals 16– 2.) He went 0– 4 with a walk and permitted 2 runs in 2 innings. This was only the 12th time in history a player has actually hung out at those 2 positions in the exact same game– and extremely, the last time came 3 days earlier, when the Mariners Tim Lopes went 1– 4 and enabled 2 runs in one inning in a 16– 3 loss to the Angels.
– The Giants beat the Rockies 23– 5 on Tuesday. Left fielder Alex Dickerson went 5– 6 with 3 crowning achievement, two doubles and a walk; second baseman Donovan Solano went 4– 6 with two doubles; and shortstop Brandon Crawford went 3– 6 with a double. Each drove in six runs. According to Stats Perform, they ended up being the very first trio of teammates to have at least 6 RBI each in the very same game since the RBI ended up being an official stat 1920.
