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Originally Posted by Welpe
Any idea why Lilly threw at Renteria?
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On Friday, Soriano hit three homeruns against the Braves. On Saturday on the first pitch of the game to Soriano, he was hit in the shoulder, clearly it was as intentional as Lilly’s was to Renteria, but Hudson wasn’t ejected. Later in the game, Isturiz for the Cubs had a pitch thrown behind him, and Gallagher for the Cubs was hit. Again, no ejections.
Before Sunday’s game, no warnings were issued and nothing was addressed in the pre-game about retaliation. It seemed to me that Wolf figured this was going to happen and instead of doing something to prevent it said I’ll just wait for it to happen and then toss the guys. Pretty crappy way of handling it I think.
Then after he was hit, Renteria steals second on the next pitch, does a very late pop-up slide and delivers a forearm to the face of the Cubs Fontenot who was covering on the play and again, nothing was done. The Braves basically got four shots at Cubs players with no repercussions, while the Cubs retaliated once and got a player ejected.