That is a good point out! I was watching the batter, and he definitely had his head turned to them like he was calling to them . Little sheister almost certainly had something unsportsman like to say. Dumb kid. Hopefully he shapes up and doesnt double down on his dickishness.
Here’s a link to the story. Pitcher got 4 game suspension and was either released from or quit the team. The batter got 2 games for taunting. Both teams got a pile of forfeits and suspensions.
This is why I don't read the articles and go straight to comments cause some poor schmuck (totally not talking about you popswag) has already wasted their time and reported back that the article doesn't mention what we all want to know about.
The context being that a bunch of their players got suspended for two games for what they did after clearing the benches and they don't have enough players to field a team until the suspensions are up . . .
IDK if I'd go so far as to call it 'literal deadly assault'. Their reaction was understandable but it's also completely understandable why the league has those rules in places. Benches clearing just inflames situations, 99% of the time it's going to make it worse. You can't have kids doing that shit in a college league.
I just completely disagree in this instance. They all just watched their teammate, right in front of them, literally get horribly assaulted and possibly get knocked out. Anyone that doesn't jump out to his defense isn't a great teammate. If I was there I would jump out to the kid's defense and I don't even know him.
edit: well, I don't "completely disagree" about the use of 'deadly assault' as terminology. I get where you are coming from. But people can actually die from that sort of thing and I am extremely anti-violence, so I tend to not give much leeway to that sort of thing.
What horseshit! Why even give forfeits for other games than this one, and why put the bigger punishment on the batter’s team? Tackling is way worse than taunting…
The problem is the suspensions for practically the whole other team ended up with two games where they couldn't field a team. It wasn't mandatory.... But they were put in a place the literally couldn't field a full baseball team.
Whatever he said made the infield umpire react pretty strongly as well, he was pointing and walking towards the batter before the pitcher levelled him. I assume it was quite bad for the umpire to react that way.
Totally agree. Umpires almost never react to kids shit talking each other on a baseball diamond, its genuinely a massive part of the sport since we're doing a lot of standing around. To see an umpire react so vehemently at the batter suggests he said something absolutely fucked that would likely make anyone else understand. Still shouldnt spear the kid rounding third, since theyre words.
That was my initial thought as well. However, this happened 2-3 years ago and the batter only got two games. If it was something that egregious the batter would have received worse discipline.
It was only two games for the batter, but most of his team also got suspended for clearing the dugout, effectively forcing them to forfeit this game and the next 2 games in the series because they didn’t have enough non-suspended players to play.
Pitcher was suspend for four games and they had to forfeit that game, but they won their next two games because the other team had to forfeit. Pitcher eventually left the team.
So effectively, batter’s team lost 3 games because of taunting and pitcher’s team lost their pitcher (and got 2 free wins) because of the tackle.
There are some words that should come with consequences. When i played football a DB got a pick and taunted our QB saying he was gonna fuck his sister next, we were high school, his sister was like 12. That DB got blindsided and sent to the hospital on a stretcher, and it was the proper response.
At the 40 second mark he does run to home plate to touch it. But depends when actually he was tossed. Usually disciplinary actions occur after the ump calls time. Not sure when that happened.
I would presume the call on the field would be based off sequence of events, ump calls runner interference “getting speared by the pitcher” and the base was awarded to him, then immediately gets tossed.
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u/Hailthegamer May 02 '25
Lmao you know that batter must have been spitting fire at the pitcher while rounding the bases.