Reds and Cubs throw high and in, yell, clear the benches and get ejected, a breakdown
What Happened
During a September 1, 2020 doubleheader between the Reds and Cubs, things got chippy after Anthony Rizzo took Trevor Bauer deep twice in game one. In game two, a Cincinnati pitch came up and in near a Cubs hitter's head, the pitcher claimed it slipped, and both benches got warned even though Chicago hadn't done anything. After more barking, Cubs catching coach got tossed, then later Angel Hernandez ejected Joey Votto, Jesse Winker, and Reds manager David Bell in rapid succession. The benches cleared, with Votto telling Rizzo to stop chirping Bell while everyone insisted no one wanted to fight.
Why This Matters
Bench-clearing dustups during the 60-game 2020 sprint carried extra weight because MLB's pandemic protocols specifically banned fighting and crowding, with the threat of suspensions hanging over anyone who escalated. That tension is why you keep hearing both sides repeat 'we don't want to fight, we just stick up for our guys.' The warning-both-benches mechanic is the flashpoint here: once umpires issue it, pitchers lose the inside corner, so the Cubs felt punished for nothing. Hernandez tossing three people in one sequence, including a manager who only came out to argue, is the kind of quick trigger that fuels his reputation. For Rizzo and a Cubs club that won the NL Central that year, this was an early-September emotional spike in a shortened season where every game counted double.
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Key Moments
Who / What Is Involved
Players: Trevor Bauer, Anthony Rizzo. Teams: Cubs, Reds.
Key Terms Mentioned
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentthe reds and cubs benches emptied strap
in because this one's a doozy and it's
brought to you by draftkings in game one
of the double header
rizzo takes bauer deep then he takes him
deep a second time which gets these
looks out of him and the catcher
not a fun time in game two they throw up
and in and out of his head and the
pitcher says my hand my hand it slipped
out of my hand and the catcher hears the
dug out barking and says
calm down it just slipped out of his
hand that's all and rizzo though he was
like
hey what was that that wasn't fun for me
they warned both benches which is
bizarre because the cubs did nothing and
then they get warned and now their
pitchers may be scared to throw up and
in
so they're not excited about that and
then they continue barking and you can
hear the ump tell him to calm down
you've crossed the line you're ejected
that was actually the catching coach
that got ejected
and then we're gonna get rossi comes
back out and you can kind of hear this
it's kind of quiet i did my best to put
the subtitles on
[Applause]
rossi's saying you are putting fuel on
this fire you're not putting it out at
all and then you're getting mad that the
fire keeps burning
brighter basically metaphor john boy
here
just laying it out for you anyway later
on in the game
show goes up and he's gonna get a pitch
high and in but it's not
over his head it's just high and in they
put him through the old whirlwind though
here
delta world just looking this way and
he's like whoa what was that
whoa what was that vado doesn't like
this
he says oh don't care okay
that's it that's it
that's the same thing y'all do when i'm
bitching
same thing i think that's what he said
and then David Bell comes out
he wants to talk to Angel Hernandez
which no one wants to talk to angel
hernandez so you got to have something
like really good on your mind what
happens is
rizzo who's at first he starts saying
come on let's go
you're delaying the game to Bell which
probably isn't a smart
says let's go and then he gets
i understand that i understand that
gets a little timid because i think he
realizes he shouldn't have been chirping
the manager
this is where the umpire starts to have
a big old fun time
he sees vato and winker coming and he
tells them stop
stop and then he throws out i see i
don't even know how
how this counts as vato he's kind of not
even looking at either of them
and he throws out vato and then winker's
like what the hell was that you too
you're gone too and then Bell says what
was that he says oh you want one
you're gone too boom giving them out all
day breakfast club in here
who's next winker's like what what the
hell was that
blue David Bell's holding him back
meanwhile
that's [ __ ] that's [ __ ] [ __ ]
right in his face
get him get him wink renvato goes to
rizzo and he says you can't talk to our
manager like that like bro
i feel you i know what's going on but
that's not between us basically i got
this from the post game
like don't talk to our manager so vado's
sticking up for his manager
and rossi was sticking up for his
players it's just to stick up for our
guys fest and we don't want to fight
we don't want to fight but we're going
to stick up for our guys i'm just
sticking up for our guys no one wants to
fight out here but we got to stick up
for our guys
Bell talks that up and he's like did you
really just eject three people
in one fell swoop and he's like yeah it
was badass i feel awesome about it
vada oh Sonny Gray with the death stare
oh [ __ ]
damn and wanker's like you really throw
me out oh my god
all right geez and that's kind of it
it was kind of uh don't treat our guy
that way hey that's my guy and then
rizzo kind of with a
a little giggle like man well that was
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rizzo you slide dog three guys ejected