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Joe Maddon said he thought Jason Bartlett was intentionally hit by a Jim Johnson pitch in the eighth inning today.
“The last one was intentional,” Maddon said. “I really don’t know why they did it, but it was on purpose.
“To verify that, all of their extra players came out and sat on the rail before the ninth inning – guys we had not seen the entire series. [Melvin] Mora, [Adam] Jones – everybody that had been inside, they were out there expecting something to happen because of what they did.”
Jason Hammel retired the Orioles in order in the top of the ninth, so that wasn’t an issue.
Maddon was asked if he told his team not to retaliate.
“That’s always in-house,” he said. “I’m just disappointed that they chose to do that.”
As for Bartlett’s thoughts on the matter, there weren’t many.
“I don’t know,” he said when asked if he thought it was intentional. “I’m not even going to go into that. It happened, and to me, it’s the past.”
Posted by Matthew Cox, Sarasota, FL on 08/31 at 07:51 PM
sounds like the Orioles need to go to Cal Ripken’s youth baseball league for a little lesson in sportsmanship. How embarrassing for them.
Posted by Andy of Dunedin, Dunedin, FL on 08/31 at 06:51 PM
Wasn’t it just yesterday that the O’s spent a little more time than appropriate watching a 9th inning home run instead of actually RUNNING the bases?
Forget retaliation, 34 runs scored in 3 games is a pretty solid statement on its own merit.
Posted by Marc Lancaster, on 08/31 at 06:00 PM
Well, it was the guy’s first home run in more than a year…
Posted by Sean Gibson, St Pete Beach on 08/31 at 05:50 PM
Jim Palmer said it was clearly intentional.
Palmer thought it happened because Bartlett was a little too giddy running the bases after his home run.
Palmer did not see a problem with what Bartlett did. Thought he was entitled to be excited.
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Posted by WilliamL, Tampa on 09/02 at 10:11 AM
We’re 5 games in 1st and the Orioles are in the cellar after a thorough butt whooping in a sweep. That’s all the retaliation I need.