By way of Fabian Ardaya, Andy McCullough and Ken Rosenthal
SAN DIEGO — Los Angeles Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned Monday he concept San Diego Padres 3rd baseman Manny Machado threw a baseball at him between innings of Sport 2 of the NLDS, including but some other layer to an emotion-filled debacle in San Diego’s victory to even the layout at 1-1.
Roberts, who mentioned he spotted Machado’s throw upcoming watching the video, referred to as the All-Celebrity 3rd baseman’s movements “unsettling.”
“There was intent behind it,” Roberts mentioned. “It didn’t almost hit me because there was a net. And that was very bothersome. If it was intended at me, I would be very —it’s pretty disrespectful.
“I don’t know his intent. I don’t want to speak for him. But I did see the video. And the ball was directed at me with something behind it.”
An individual within the Dodgers dugout showed on Monday that Machado’s throw went towards the top of the dugout closest to house plate, the place Roberts sits throughout video games. The Athletic seen a video that confirmed Machado’s throw hitting the netting in entrance of Roberts and caroming towards house plate. Within the video, umpire Tripp Gibson approaches Machado moments after.
The Dodgers have submitted the video to Primary League Baseball for evaluation.
“We are aware of it,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman advised The Athletic. “We will reserve comment until that is done.”
Dave Roberts mentioned he noticed video of Manny Machado throwing a ball into the Dodgers dugout between innings and in his path. Known as it “unsettling” and “disrespectful.”
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Machado, who performed for Roberts and the Dodgers in 2018, advised The Athletic on Sunday evening he did certainly throw a baseball towards the Dodgers dugout. How parched he threw it was once up for dispute between the 2 facets.
“Did Flaherty throw the ball hard at the other guy?” Machado advised The Athletic, alluding to Dodgers inauguration pitcher Jack Flaherty hitting Fernando Tatis Jr. with a sound the former half-inning. “They can say whatever they want. I threw the ball like I always throw it into any dugout.”
Flaherty, who had simply been got rid of from the sport, took exception to the throw, attractive in a shouting fit with Machado that had began when Flaherty struck out Machado the former half-inning.
“I think things got out of hand there,” Flaherty mentioned Monday. “After that happens and he throws the ball, I wish I would’ve just let it go … that’s not how you want things to go. You want to keep it on the field and focus on the game. … Things were said. It was hard to hear.”
Did Machado’s throw go a layout?
“It’s not a normal thing to do,” Flaherty mentioned. He mentioned he had “no idea” if he would communicate to Machado earlier than Sport 3 on Tuesday in San Diego.
“Things probably got a little chippier than expected, quickly,” Flaherty mentioned of the layout.
Flaherty, on the other hand, was once rarely the one individual within the Dodgers dugout to be annoyed on Sunday evening through Machado’s throw.
“You disrespect the opposite team,” infielder Miguel Rojas mentioned. “There’s no reason why you need to chuck the ball into our dugout. If he wants to do something, there are other ways. Chucking the ball into our dugout is pretty disrespectful. That’s something you don’t do when you call yourself a veteran in this game and have been around for a long time.
“You don’t see guys throwing a bat into the dugout or a ball, something like that when no one is watching. How about if that ball gets over the dugout and hits someone in the face? That’s going to be a problem.”
Flaherty insisted that the plain inciting incident — hitting Tatis Jr., who homered within the first inning — with a sound to manage off the 6th was once unintended. Roberts mentioned that as Machado jawed at Flaherty right away upcoming, the chief checked out Machado and shook his head to suggest it was once no longer completed on function.
“As a baseball person, anyone understands that you don’t do that, intentionally put the lead-off man on base, with three, four, five coming up behind. It just makes no sense,” Roberts mentioned.
That was once his handiest interplay with Machado on Sunday evening previous to the throw, Roberts mentioned.
The evening unspooled from there, in the end requiring a lengthen upcoming enthusiasts threw a minimum of one baseball at Padres outfielder Jurickson Profar and trash onto the ground alike Tatis in proper ground. Profar’s troll task of the Dodgers’ enthusiasts upcoming robbing a house run within the first eager the sound for a Padres romp, igniting tensions on a tension-filled evening.
“Clearly that team over there, they like the villain-type kind of role and they feed off of that,” Roberts mentioned. “So whatever gets us going, the motivation is individually, collectively, to win a baseball game, to win a series.”
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