Here's how it works in baseball: Texas' Vicente Padilla throws at, and hits, the Yankees' Mark Teixeira twice and gets fined. A.J. Burnett tries to protect Teixeira with a pitch that doesn't hit Nelson Cruz and gets suspended.All this happened Tuesday at Yankee Stadium, and the punishment was handed down Thursday by Major League Baseball.
"I pitch in all the time, but I can't complain about it," Burnett said before the Yanks hosted the Rangers at the new Yankee Stadium. "Obviously, a warning was issued and nothing else."Padilla hit Teixeira on the right biceps in Tuesday's second inning and on the rear end in the fourth, prompting Teixeira to stare down Padilla and then blast him as a headhunter after the game.
Still, he wasn't overly surprised by the decision.
"You kind of expect something to happen when ball comes that close," Burnett said. "It looked bad. Obviously, it was up tight."
In the top of the fifth, Burnett sailed one over the head of Cruz, who had homered in the third inning. Home-plate umpire Doug Eddings then warned both teams.
It makes no sense for Padilla to get off with a lighter punishment. Bob Watson, MLB's Vice President of On-Field Operations, has judged that both pitchers intentionally threw at batters. But the guy who did it first, and actually hit someone, gets no suspension?
If Teixeira is right, and it seems that way, then Padilla was the instigator and Burnett was merely trying to send a message back to the Rangers that the Yankees would not sit by and let players get plunked. Had the umpires warned the teams after Teixeira was hit the second time, then Burnett would not have retaliated.
Burnett has appealed his suspension and is thus eligible to play in the meantime.
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Boohoo....Cheese with your whine?
HAHAHAHA!! That was soooooooooo funny I fell off my dinosaur. You must be as old as me to still be using that joke! HAHAHA!! Good times! Ahhhh!!! A T-Rex!!!
Sandy,
You are on every single story pertaining to the Yankees, just posting nonsense. Nothing you write is ever intelligent or valid. Please, please, just get a life already.
As a Yankee fan, I read articles about the Yankees. I don't go posting on stories about the RedSox, simply because I don't care about them. I just root for my team to win.
You're a fine example of the typically pathetic RedSox fan who's entire baseball world revolves around ANOTHER team.
Sad really.
Defending his teamate? Whoa. Sounds like "his teamate" is being attacked by knats again, or a band of hyenas. Please. What an anoying old crybaby.
Burnett wouldn't have been suspended if he wouldn't have thrown at Cruz's head.
Let me see if I can make this easier for the baseball "airheads" to understand. Burnett gets "whacked" because his hit was "retaliatory". I get so sick and tired of this "I pitch in" and "it's part of the game" crap. Let's put an end to it right now. When an AL pitcher hits a batter, he has to be the first batter up next time his team comes to the plate. How's that? No? I didn't think so. What COWARDS! I've always said that the first pitcher who deliberately threw at me, "wears" the bat around his knees next time up. That will put an end to this "protection" BS. Anyone disagree---stand in there and I'll throw at your head. Maybe then, you'll GET IT! We're not playing with a Nerf ball here, folks.
A J Burnett, Alex Rodorkus, and Mark Texeira all jump out of an airplane at 10,000 ft with no parachutes. Who hits the ground first? Come on, you know the answer!
Your mother
Padilla should be suspended for a month, he hit a batter twice!!!! MLB get your heads out of your butts!!!
Speaking of hitting batters the Yankees are just a bunch of crybabies.While in Boston Jason Bay hit a booming homer off of Mario-I refuse to show respect to Jackie Robinson,by keeping his number-Rivera.When the Red Sox came to New York Bubba Chamberland drilled Bay in the back,an obvious pay back for hitting the homer in Boston that tied the game,that the Red Sox later won.I believe it was the next game A Yankee releaver drilled Bay again.Why no word from the Commenishers offace.Let the Yankees cry,but let them remember what goes around comes around.