Angels and Mariners benches clear, a breakdown
What Happened
In this Jomboy baseball breakdown, the Angels and Mariners benches cleared after a series of high and inside pitches to Angels star Mike Trout. The incident started on June 25th when Trout was hit with two high and inside pitches, leading to a confrontation between the players and teams. The pitcher claimed he was just trying to pitch to Trout's weakest zone, but the Angels were clearly upset by the potentially dangerous pitches towards Trout's head. The video provides a detailed breakdown of the incident and the differing perspectives from the players involved.
Full Transcript
the angels and mariners benches cleared and punches were thrown it was a doozy there's a lot of chapters to this story so hang with me it's brought to you by draftkings thank you to them for sponsoring the videos it really starts on saturday june 25th mike trout's coming to the plate now there's stuff before this players have been hit mike trout crushes the mariners it's a close game the pitching coach comes out and the first one is up and in and then the next one is up and way too up and way too in at his head wild pitch so the runner moves a second so there's no longer a force and you need to get that last out and that is scary and trout flashes them a look like uh what the hell was that about you had a meeting at the mound and then i got two pitches up and in and the catcher looks at trout and it's like i hope you're not mad at me man i didn't call for it you're my idol and i really like you and trout's like funny business huh funny business after the game he said he was frustrated with the high and in heater that proceeded to walk he said if you can't pitch inside don't pitch inside if you're going to hit me hit me in the ribs don't hit me in the head i don't know if that was the intent but anything at the head you don't do that now the pitcher who threw the ball he said that he was just zeroing in on trout's weakest quadrants of the strike zone which is the upper rail you're trying to go up right there if i'm going to miss up that's...