Earl Weaver had it right when it comes to baseball brawls

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/earl-weaver-had-it-right-when-it-comes-to-baseball-brawls/2017/05/30/5f8eaeea-4559-11e7-bcde-624ad94170ab_story.html?utm_term=.2d44abd86538

 

With a look back to a melee in 1993 that almost cost Cal Ripken Jr. his consecutive-game streak, Tom Boswell deftly demolishes the pseudo-macho crap peddled by Ray Knight, F.P. Santangelo and similar idiots that “red-blooded men” have no choice but to charge the mound whenever they’re intentionally (at least in their opinion) hit by a pitched ball. Side note: Boswell doesn’t even mention that former Nat Michael Morse (of “Take On Me” fame) suffered a concussion as a by-product of the Harper-Strickland confrontation, when he got the worst of a collision with teammate (and former Notre Dame football star) Jeff Samardzija.

 

Ironically, Harper and 8 other Nats visited various Washington area youth baseball programs last Saturday morning. Guess if grown and supposedly mature men are allowed to take the law into their own hands by charging the mound, it must be OK for high school players and Little Leaguers to do so as well, eh?

 

Bottom line – the old cliché that two wrongs don’t make a right still holds.

May 28, 2017 – Padres 5, Nats 3 – Nationals Park

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/233021108/ryan-schimpf-homers-in-padres-win-vs-nats/

 

Attendance: 30,243

Game Time: 3:19

Weather: 65 degrees, cloudy

Wind: 7 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Dan Bellino, First Base - Jerry Layne, Second Base - Roberto Ortiz, Third Base - Mike Estabrook

 

Highlights – Nats scored a run in the first after loading the bases with nobody out (Trea Turner single, Goodwin double, Rendon walk), another in the second (singles by Difo, Turner, and Goodwin), and one in the fifth on an Adam Lind RBI double after a Zimmerman single … Jacob Turner, Treinen, and Romero combined for 5 scoreless innings out of the pen

 

Other – Joe Ross gave up two runs in the top of the first on a two-out Ryan Schimpf homer after Will Myers worked a walk … things didn’t improve from there, as Ross gave up 3 more runs and a total of 12 hits without retiring a batter in the 5^th … while we were prepared for possible rain late afternoon or early evening, we didn’t expect the drizzle (and eventual rain) we got before the game when waiting for autographs … were also a bit surprised when the put the tarp on about 15 minutes before the game was scheduled to start, as they were obviously warned of the rain that started shortly thereafter and delayed the start of the game for 80 minutes … cool throughout, also in contrast to the earlier forecast … tried the Italian sausage sandwich for the first time, which wasn’t bad