“Teams pitch us inside, no doubt about that,” manager John Gibbons commented prior to the Orioles series. Happ fired a pitch at Chase Headley’s lower body, then hit him with the next offering. “I believe that right now baseball is taking things so far that in some situations most hitters believe that they can’t be brushed out. That discussion involves pitching inside when your teammate has been pitched inside and not backing away from a physical challenge — like a bench-clearing brawl. But the game is becoming kinder and gentler and umpires issue warnings, and fines and suspensions are expected to deter any basebrawl violence.

Source: thestar September 28, 2016 13:46 UTC