Acuna keeps getting hit.

MarkBoknecht

Sorry college football guys. Another Acuna thread.
I'm sick and tired of pitchers throwing at our star player. Last night's game: he gets hit on the hand. Fortunately, he stayed in the game. I guess the Marlins were mad he hit one over the 427 foot sign.
But I got a solution. You hit a ball player and in the judgement of the umpire, the hitter couldn't avoid getting hit, you're gone. Plain and simple, immediate ejection.
Pitchers are pitching inside and hitting players on the wrists, hands, and elbows and subjecting them to serious and painful injuries.

Teddy

@MarkBoknecht said:
Sorry college football guys. Another Acuna thread.
I'm sick and tired of pitchers throwing at our star player. Last night's game: he gets hit on the hand. Fortunately, he stayed in the game. I guess the Marlins were mad he hit one over the 427 foot sign.
But I got a solution. You hit a ball player and in the judgement of the umpire, the hitter couldn't avoid getting hit, you're gone. Plain and simple, immediate ejection.
Pitchers are pitching inside and hitting players on the wrists, hands, and elbows and subjecting them to serious and painful injuries.

It irritated me that it was the Marlins again who hit him, but this has been going on forever in baseball, and if anything it happens a lot less than it used to.

WCDawg

@MarkBoknecht said:
Sorry college football guys. Another Acuna thread.
I'm sick and tired of pitchers throwing at our star player. Last night's game: he gets hit on the hand. Fortunately, he stayed in the game. I guess the Marlins were mad he hit one over the 427 foot sign.
But I got a solution. You hit a ball player and in the judgement of the umpire, the hitter couldn't avoid getting hit, you're gone. Plain and simple, immediate ejection.
Pitchers are pitching inside and hitting players on the wrists, hands, and elbows and subjecting them to serious and painful injuries.

A young but gifted hitter is going to get thrown to tight inside till it's clear he won't be affected by it, that's just baseball. I'm ok as long as it's not trying to hit him. The guy deliberately targeting him at 97 mph should have been suspended for months, not days.

donm

@WCDawg said:

@MarkBoknecht said:
Sorry college football guys. Another Acuna thread.
I'm sick and tired of pitchers throwing at our star player. Last night's game: he gets hit on the hand. Fortunately, he stayed in the game. I guess the Marlins were mad he hit one over the 427 foot sign.
But I got a solution. You hit a ball player and in the judgement of the umpire, the hitter couldn't avoid getting hit, you're gone. Plain and simple, immediate ejection.
Pitchers are pitching inside and hitting players on the wrists, hands, and elbows and subjecting them to serious and painful injuries.

A young but gifted hitter is going to get thrown to tight inside till it's clear he won't be affected by it, that's just baseball. I'm ok as long as it's not trying to hit him. The guy deliberately targeting him at 97 mph should have been suspended for months, not days.

Baseball has ways of handling these things...let Folty or Newcombe drill a guy or two and perhaps it won't matter. Too bad we are in a pennant race - don't want to be putting guys on or having a starter tossed. But hey, it's the Marlins. Maybe we can start a reliever we wouldn't ordinarily use and have him serve justice and when he gets tossed we can bring our starter for the day into the game.

The bones in the hand are very small and fragile---that is season ending territory right there.

WCDawg

@donm said:

@WCDawg said:

@MarkBoknecht said:
Sorry college football guys. Another Acuna thread.
I'm sick and tired of pitchers throwing at our star player. Last night's game: he gets hit on the hand. Fortunately, he stayed in the game. I guess the Marlins were mad he hit one over the 427 foot sign.
But I got a solution. You hit a ball player and in the judgement of the umpire, the hitter couldn't avoid getting hit, you're gone. Plain and simple, immediate ejection.
Pitchers are pitching inside and hitting players on the wrists, hands, and elbows and subjecting them to serious and painful injuries.

A young but gifted hitter is going to get thrown to tight inside till it's clear he won't be affected by it, that's just baseball. I'm ok as long as it's not trying to hit him. The guy deliberately targeting him at 97 mph should have been suspended for months, not days.

Baseball has ways of handling these things...let Folty or Newcombe drill a guy or two and perhaps it won't matter. Too bad we are in a pennant race - don't want to be putting guys on or having a starter tossed. But hey, it's the Marlins. Maybe we can start a reliever we wouldn't ordinarily use and have him serve justice and when he gets tossed we can bring our starter for the day into the game.

The bones in the hand are very small and fragile---that is season ending territory right there.

''it's The Marlins'' I see your point, life is punishing them enough.

scooterdawg

@MarkBoknecht said:
Sorry college football guys. Another Acuna thread.
I'm sick and tired of pitchers throwing at our star player. Last night's game: he gets hit on the hand. Fortunately, he stayed in the game. I guess the Marlins were mad he hit one over the 427 foot sign.
But I got a solution. You hit a ball player and in the judgement of the umpire, the hitter couldn't avoid getting hit, you're gone. Plain and simple, immediate ejection.
Pitchers are pitching inside and hitting players on the wrists, hands, and elbows and subjecting them to serious and painful injuries.

Yeah. Pitchers used to complain that hitters wore the huge arm guards so they could crowd the plate without worrying about getting hit. I took a couple of years off from baseball but it would appear that hitters can’t do that anymore yet pitchers are still pitching inside. And with some of these scrubs on crappy teams like the Marlins doing it more players are going to get hit. I also wonder with the Marlins if the “old school code of baseball” isn’t emphasized since they have Mattingly as their manager.

donm

I felt Urena had orders to hit Acuna. Didn’t think he’d do that on his own.

brentwilson

if anyone noticed you could tell Acuña was feeling good after his homer. he did a mini bat flip there

donm

@brentwilson said:
if anyone noticed you could tell Acuña was feeling good after his homer. he did a mini bat flip there

The incident doesn’t seem to have held him back any.

orlando

Miami is lucky Braves are battling to stay atop the east or it would have got ****. Good job on staying the course and keeping the main thing the main thing.

Reeldawg

The irony is that we took out their pitcher last night.

Markakis hit a comebacker which nailed Marlins’ pitcher Hernandez in the leg. He then had to leave the mound.

Karma.