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Word on the Street: Machado’s Slide Causes Controversy

Manny Machado slides into Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedrioa at second base.
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We had some controversy in last night’s win. Click play or read the transcript below.

The Baltimore Orioles won again on Friday night, 2-0 over the Boston Red Sox behind 7-plus shutout innings from Dylan Bundy and clutch bullpen work by Mychal Givens, Donnie Hart, and Brad Brach.

Unfortunately, we’re not talking about Bundy this morning. Instead, we’re talking about a play involving Manny Machado in the bottom of the eighth inning. Machado – who had homered earlier to give the Birds an insurance run – slid into second base as Dustin Pedroia was reaching out to field a throw, and his cleats made contact with Pedroia’s leg.

Manny appeared to immediately reach out to keep Pedroia from falling, but apparently the damage was already done, as the second baseman had to be removed from the game. What looked like a pretty routine play was suddenly soaked in controversy. Boston pitcher Joe Kelly was seen on camera yelling at Machado. Boston third base coach Brian Butterfield was ejected between innings for complaining about the slide. And manager John Farrell was apparently still barking from the dugout during his team’s at-bats in the top of the ninth.

A couple Boston reporters were – and are still today – weighing in, and overwhelmingly seem to be in favor of Boston engaging in some sort of “retaliation” against Manny this weekend. Retaliation in baseball of course, comes in the form of one grown man throwing a baseball at another grown man intentionally.

Real mature stuff.

Amusingly, if you look at the replies to Tweets on the subject from some of those aforementioned Boston reporters, there is hardly consensus among Red Sox fans on the issue. Many seem to have a much more reasoned reaction to what happened. They think the slide was fine, and that no retaliation is in order.

Some media also reported that the Red Sox players were watching the play in slow-motion after the game.

I suppose we’ll see what those players “discovered” as the series goes on. If Machado wears one in the ribs over the next two games, then we’ll know that the kangaroo court dubbed him guilty. In that case, let’s just hope he doesn’t get injured or charge the mound.

We O’s fans know that Manny has done some…questionable…things in the past. But you can believe that and also think that as far as the slide goes, there’s nothing to see here.

Maybe media members shouldn’t be carrying water for teams on things like this. And maybe those Red Sox players would be better served reviewing tape of those 27 outs they went without scoring a single run.

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  1. Not an issue ,In the early years of baseball he probably would have been taken off on a stretcher he would have been wiped out.

  2. If a pitch hits Manny intentionally this weekend. History tells us Manny Muchado will not stand idly by.

  3. Didn’t look intentional to me, NO MATTER WHO THE PLAYER WAS. Some men just need to put their big boy pants on and suck it up. Christ it’s not like you broke the damn leg. Surely not like your forgetting paid enough either. As said, I’m sure we will have a retaliation game tonight. Both benched need to be warned BEFORE the game. Any problems, automatic ejection of the players involved.

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0 Responses

  1. Not an issue ,In the early years of baseball he probably would have been taken off on a stretcher he would have been wiped out.

  2. If a pitch hits Manny intentionally this weekend. History tells us Manny Muchado will not stand idly by.

  3. Didn’t look intentional to me, NO MATTER WHO THE PLAYER WAS. Some men just need to put their big boy pants on and suck it up. Christ it’s not like you broke the damn leg. Surely not like your forgetting paid enough either. As said, I’m sure we will have a retaliation game tonight. Both benched need to be warned BEFORE the game. Any problems, automatic ejection of the players involved.

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