On the 26th, the Angels, the major league baseball player to which Shohei Ohtani belongs, had a brawl over the dead ball in the Mariners game, and a total of eight people from both teams were sent off.
In Major League Baseball, there are often sent-offs with dead balls that appear to be retaliation like this match.
In this case, there was a hint in the game on the 25th of the previous day.
The Mariners led 2 points in the 9th inning, 2 outs and 1st base, and if a home run came out, the Mariners held down, and pitcher Swanson threw a 152-kilometer straight to the Angels' main gun, Trout, off the course. There was a dangerous scene where Trout went to the vicinity of his head and was able to avoid it with a short hair.
After this ball, Trout was shunned, and Otani fell and the Mariners escaped, but after the match, Trout said, "If you can't throw it in the in-course, don't throw it. I don't know if it's intentional. If you hit it, hit it on the ribs, not on the head. "
In the game on the 26th, which dawned overnight, the Angels initially planned to start pitcher Suarez on the left arm, but announced before the game that he would use relief pitcher Onez as the starting pitcher.
The relief pitcher started and took the tactic called "opener" for the first time this season, throwing one to two innings.
And once, Pitcher Wants threw a 149-kilometer straight to the first ball around the back of his neck against Mariners No. 2, Rodriguez, and the referees who caught the flow from the previous day immediately warned both teams. Declare.
However, in the following two innings, Pitcher Wants threw a 146-kilometer straight to the first ball to Winker, the first pitcher, and hit the hips to make a dead ball, resulting in a big brawl in which both teams got mixed up. A total of 8 players were sent off, and the match was interrupted for 18 minutes.
After the match, Acting Angels Nevin said, "Unfortunately, sometimes ugly things happen in baseball, but I think that's what happened today."
Meanwhile, the Mariners service manager said, "There was something that shouldn't have happened during the match. It's clear what was happening. They hurriedly used the opener to throw that ball. That pitcher was the starting pitcher. It's clear why it was done, "he said, claiming that the appointment of pitcher Wants itself was for retaliation.
This is the eighth match between the Angels and the Mariners in the last 10 days, and in the match on the 17th of this month, Upton of the Mariners was replaced by a dead ball in his head.
The American media pointed out that this may also be a hint, and when asked "Is the problem of both teams smoldering for a long time?", The Mariners service manager said, "In the previous home game. "It hit my head," said Upton, and the acting coach Nevin of the Angels also denied all, saying, "If you have been fighting eight games from last week with rivals in the same area, this will happen." did not.
In Major League Baseball, there are a number of unwritten rules that aren't in the rulebook, such as teams with big leads not stealing bases or sacrifice bunts, and if they break, they often get a dead ball of retaliation.
Even if the main player of the team throws a dangerous ball that may lead to injury such as a dead ball to the head, a similar ball may be thrown to the opponent batter in retaliation, and the exchange of dangerous balls continues this time as well. It became a situation that ended up.