Dodgers catcher denies shooting Giants’ Lee after tagging him out
Now that the San Francisco Giants are displaying a feisty facet and haven’t any downside mixing issues up a bit, Los Angeles catcher Dalton Rushing could be getting some glares or worse Thursday when he is again within the Dodgers lineup.
Rushing mentioned earlier than Wednesday’s recreation at Oracle Park that he didn’t shoot Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee after Lee aggravated an damage in a play on the plate the night time earlier than, disputing internet lip readers’ contention that he’d mentioned, “f— ’em” to himself after turning round and seeing Lee nonetheless mendacity on the plate.
Rushing mentioned the very first thing he’d carried out was test with teammate Hyeseong Kim, who’s Lee’s World Baseball Classic teammate on South Korea’s workforce, to see how Lee was.
“That’s the biggest thing, that’s all that matters,” Rushing mentioned of Lee’s well being. “Hopefully he didn’t take it the way it was put out. I’ll be sure to say something to his face tomorrow, and make sure he’s OK. There was nothing really directed at him. He’s a great guy.”
Lee has had some points together with his quadriceps since an ungainly slide into house in Washington over the weekend, and got here out of the sport after Tuesday’s play on the plate. He was again within the lineup Wednesday.
Rushing did not have an issue with the slide, saying, “No, he was playing the game. He’s doing what his coach told him to do; the third-base coach sent him, and he ran hard the whole way. It was kind of an awkward slide. That’s all it was.”
Asked what he had mentioned, Rushing responded, “I used a word, but it was not what was said. OK, so I’ll just leave it at that.”
The Giants have proven they’re keen to handle slights a day or two later, resembling Landen Roupp hitting Spencer Steer with a first-pitch fastball in Cincinnati after Steer’s late timeout after which a muttered expletive afterward had set off reliever JT Brubaker the night time earlier than. Logan Webb, the chief of the pitching employees, can be on the mound Wednesday.
Rushing was clear he hopes the Giants do not see this as a difficulty, saying the media was making an excessive amount of of it and reiterating its concern.
“As long as he’s OK and he doesn’t think that I’m coming at him or any of those guys over there,” Rushing mentioned. “I don’t care what other people put out there say, I just want to play the game hard, and that’s what I do every night.
“There was no frustration at all,” he added later. “I play with fire. Everybody that’s ever played with me, everyone that’s watched me play, knows that, and whatever people want to make of it, I hope it’s not negative.”
Giants supervisor Tony Vitello mentioned Lee dinging his leg up a bit earlier within the recreation, sliding again into the bag, “but he’s all systems go today.”
Since that is two lower than good slides in a row that left Lee a bit shaken up, does Lee want to alter one thing together with his method?
“No, I think that was just more the nature of that tricky play in Washington, during the back-and-forth game,” Vitello mentioned of Lee thunking exhausting into the plate in an extra-innings recreation Saturday.
