Saturday marked the third recreation of the sequence between AL East rivals, and playoff hopefuls, the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays. Every group had received a recreation up to now and the Rays held a 3-1 lead within the backside of the eighth in what would ultimately be a 5-1 Rays win.
Randy Arozarena — who homered earlier within the recreation — was on third base after a single and two stolen bases. José Caballero reached on an infield (bunt) single that plated Arozarena and ultimately — there was a throwing error — ended the inning with Caballero tagged out at third.
After which, an odd confrontation occurred. Caballero had accepted he was going to be tagged out and allowed it to occur after which simply sort of coasted slightly previous third, taking him into Blue Jays reliever Génesis Cabrera. They bumped into one another, fairly barely. Caballero appeared to surprise why Cabrera did one thing after which after some phrases have been exchanged, Cabrera reacted with a two-handed shove to the face.
Clearly, then, the benches cleared.
There was no additional bodily preventing, as an alternative only a bunch of standing round and speaking. No gamers have been ejected.
“It was extra the warmth of the second. I believe I sort of overreacted slightly bit,” Cabrera stated via a membership interpreter (through MLB.com). “He checked out me and I simply reacted.
“It was feelings. Feelings. The warmth of the second. It is a part of the sport generally, nevertheless it’s over with. It is over. That is the place it ends, proper there.”
“I am simply enjoying baseball,” Caballero stated (MLB.com). “I attempt to have enjoyable enjoying baseball. I take pleasure in what I do, and I do not need any downside with anybody. However conditions all the time come, and I did not need it to go farther than what it was. And sadly, he did not assume the identical means. However that is all.”
The 2 groups will sq. off once more Sunday at 1:40 p.m. ET in Tropicana Discipline. It is troublesome to see this dust-up resulting in additional fireworks, given how odd and comparatively innocent all of it appeared, however you by no means know. These are seemingly two good groups, so there’s good cause to tune in anyway.
