plow the catcher olympics

[TussAgee11]

If you go to the video on nbcolympics.com, and choose "baseball", you can find some videos.

I didn't have a problem with any of the hit batters except for the last US batter that were hit. The rest looked like tailing fastballs that just kept coming in, just grazing the batter.

4th inning, guy took one off the butt... this one didn't look good but it was before both collisions at the plate. No need to hit a batter there. This was the 4th batter hit, in a 4-0 game at the time.

Next came the two collisions, first one was R3's shoulder hitting the F2's knee on a dive towards the plate. I wouldn't even judge it as malicious.

Next one was malicious, but I'm not sure of rule code in Olympic play. Here is a baseball lesson for China, when there is no play at the plate, perhaps the catcher shouldn't be standing in the way...

Then, in the 7th, the kid who collided with F2 the first time got drilled in the head.

Looking at box score and highlights, this was no doubt a purpose pitch, but also no doubt the first one that could be recognized as such. Umpires ejected pitcher and pitching coach (manager had already been tossed). Guess you don't need a warning of the benches in international ball to get the acting manager run on a purpose pitch as well.

USA played the game hard, China got pissed and threw at the kid who knocked F2 out of the game.

Nice Olympic spirit showed by China - this is why IMO host countries should NOT have a free bid into every team event