Blue Jays right-hander Jose Berrios suspected Seattle’s Cal Raleigh was relaying pitch info to his Mariners teammates and wished the hard-hitting catcher to know what he considered it.
Berríos exchanged offended phrases with Raleigh as he walked again to the dugout on the finish of the fourth inning of Saturday’s 8-4, 12-inning loss to the Mariners.
“I don’t react that means fairly often,” Berríos mentioned. “I’m a quiet and chill man. However when some individuals are attempting to battle with us within the discipline, I don’t respect that. I don’t like that.”
Each benches cleared as Berríos and Raleigh jawed again between third base and residential plate, however the scenario didn’t escalate. As relievers from each groups had been working in from the bullpens, Toronto slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was waving his teammates again.
Raleigh denied relaying pitch info however mentioned he understood Berríos’ response.
“I’d need my pitchers doing the identical factor,” Raleigh mentioned. “If anyone thought they had been tipping, I’d need them to say one thing. Simply how it’s. Aggressive baseball sport. Persons are proper within the coronary heart of it.”
Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider mentioned stealing indicators and relaying pitch info is “honest sport.”
“Groups do this. We get it,” Schneider mentioned. “Within the warmth of the second, you get a bit bit fired up. I didn’t suppose the benches wanted to clear. There was nothing loopy happening. However I like when our guys are sticking up for themselves.”
Raleigh got here up once more within the fifth and hit a two-run double to proper discipline that put Seattle forward 2-1. Raleigh completed 2-for-3 with three walks, one in every of them intentional.
In 20 video games towards the Blue Jays, Raleigh is batting .292 (21-for-72) with 9 house runs and 18 RBIs.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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