There was no love misplaced between the Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Edwin Uceta after Tuesday night time’s bench-clearing brawl.
Tensions have been using excessive within the eighth inning of the Phillies’ 9-4 win over the Rays after Uceta drilled outfielder Nick Castellanos with a 96 m.p.h. fastball and Philadelphia gamers provided up some alternative remarks after the sport.
“I simply instructed him that was [expletive],” Castellanos stated, in accordance with Dave Uram of KYW Newsradio. “You’re throwing a baseball over ninety miles an hour and also you’re pissed off and also you’re gonna throw at someone.
“That’s like my two-year-old throwing a match as a result of I take away his dessert earlier than he’s completed.”
Phillies teammate Bryce Harper was one of many first to enter the scrum following the hit-by-pitch, instantly working right down to the mound from second base. Following the sport he additionally had some phrases for the Rays reliever.
“He hit him on function,” Harper stated. “It’s not the sport that we play man. It shouldn’t be. Guys throw too onerous these days. You’re getting mad as a result of a man hits a homer off you otherwise you blow the lead … The entire thing actually fired me up, actually upset me. Simply not one thing that it’s best to settle for as Main League Baseball.”
Earlier than Castellanos was hit by the pitch, Uceta gave up a double to Cal Stevenson, a single to Buddy Kennedy, a homer to Trea Turner and a double to Harper in what changed into a five-run inning for Philadelphia.
“I believe that he was simply pissed off that his numbers acquired tousled,” Castellanos added. “I can’t clarify it, I simply know that he had comparatively fairly good numbers going into that and simply watching him, I might see him getting pissed off.”
“He was simply pissed off that he acquired hit round and his ERA shot by the roof.”
Earlier than this look, Uceta had been sporting a 0.75 ERA over 36 innings, the most effective mark on the Rays for any pitcher to throw no less than 30 innings.
Nevertheless, after three earned runs have been tabbed to him on this outing, his ERA almost doubled, capturing as much as 1.49.
The 26-year-old righty solely lasted one-third of an inning on this one, as he was ejected following the hit-by-pitch.