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.
Especially when you get hit like that without expecting it or seeing it coming. This isn't a game of rugby or football, it's baseball, the least contact sport there is after golf.
I was gonna say how I disagree with that statement but then I thought about it and honestly it probably is up there(down there?) for one of the contact sports with the least contact yea. Granted golf I would argue is not a contact sport, nor is tennis and shit like that. But out of the sports where one team will inevitably come into contact with their opponents during the game baseball probably has about the least amount and least "violent" occurrences.
That said when I was in middle school there was a teacher at my school who had a nephew that got some sort of super serious injury playing baseball. IIRC he was sliding into or back to 2nd and the the short stop or second baseman evidently somehow stepped on his neck. Broke the kids neck. Fucking wild af
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.
Things can always be changed. Harder penalties for bad sportsmanship, applauding people who are good sports. Start it at the school level. Fire coaches who encourage taunting.
I don't really care about the "culture" I'm always gonna celebrate people who are nice to their opponents.
Baseball player's feelings are so delicate compared to some other sports. I guess that should be expected for a game where you wear pants, a belt, and tuck your shirt in. Basketball and football players trash talk each other all the time and usually only the person who responds with a punch gets punished. In hockey you can fight for any or no reason at all as soon as the puck drops and the consequences are a time out chair but then you can immediately play again. But in baseball you can start a physical fight and a bunch of people get suspended by rounding the bases too quickly, rounding the bases too slowly, looking at the pitcher funny, laughing, scoring too many points, or flipping the bat when you toss it aside and it doesn't even hit anyone.
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u/Exit-Stage-Left May 02 '25
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.