SAN DIEGO — Dodgers pitcher David Worth, who was a part of the Purple Sox-Yankees rivalry, stated a rivalry doesn’t actually start till you might have your first benches-clearing scenario.
Nicely, the Dodgers and Padres are batting 1.000 in that division this season.
The Padres finally received the overview and Profar was awarded first base. However Kershaw took exception to Profar’s swing. Kershaw felt that Profar tried to hit Austin Barnes’ glove on function in an effort to get the free base.
“That’s a [expletive] swing,” Kershaw yelled at Profar from throughout the diamond. Profar shortly responded with an expletive and each benches acquired as much as the highest step of their respective dugouts, however didn’t totally clear.
“That’s somewhat scary. Barnes may’ve been critically injured on that play,” Kershaw stated after the sport. “He mainly swung straight down and backwards. I’m not saying it was intentional, however that was not a giant league swing proper there.
“I requested the umpire if I may simply hit the catcher’s glove each time as a result of I’ve a a lot better likelihood of doing that than hitting the ball. There’s some grey space inside that rule which may should be checked out, for positive.”
The Padres additionally don’t imagine that Profar was deliberately attempting to hit Barnes’ glove. In any case, Kershaw was on his recreation on Saturday, hanging out eight over six scoreless innings.
“Kershaw tunnels his pitches so properly, and it’s powerful to see the rotation,” stated Padres supervisor Jayce Tingler. “I undoubtedly, 100 p.c, don’t imagine that Profar is attempting to try this. I imagine he’s up there battling, doing every part, seeing it deep. It’s powerful to choose up rotation. Profar’s not going to go up there and attempt to hit the man’s glove. He’s up there battling.”
Kershaw acquired Jake Cronenworth to fly out to finish the inning only one batter later. The Dodgers’ left-hander then responded by drawing a bases-loaded stroll in opposition to Yu Darvish to present Los Angeles a 1-Zero lead within the fifth.
The 2 groups are scheduled to play not less than 17 extra instances this season. There’s no love misplaced between them. We’ll see what’s in retailer on Sunday when Trevor Bauer faces off in opposition to Blake Snell.
“They’re membership, and clearly we all know that,” stated Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts. “We knew it was going to be emotional and intense, and it has actually lived as much as the billing.”