Today's afternoon Cubs-Reds game featured a bench-clearing when Reds reliever Aroldis Chapman almost hit Nate Schierholtz with one of his triple-digit pitches not once, but twice.
Was Chapman trying to hit Schierholtz in a tie game in the ninth with one out? Probably not. Still, the Cubs dugout started yelling at him after the strikeout, which seemed reasonable. Even if this was just about Chapman's shitty control, they probably felt required to stick up for their teammate and say, "Hey, don't kill our outfielder, please."
Chapman would go on to strike out Schierholtz, and as he walked off the rubber to prepare for his next batter, Chicago's Anthony Rizzo yelled at him from the dugout. To add fuel to the fire, Chapman waved to the Cubs dugout following the third out of the inning, and when Rizzo took the field, he continued to express his dismay. Once Rizzo threw his hat and glove on the ground, the argument had reached its boiling point.
That’s when things got testy — not because of the strikeout, but because of what came before the punchout. Chapman threw consecutive pitches of 100 mph or more up near Schierholtz’s head.
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