Jorge Lopez suspended for intentionally throwing at Andrew McCutchen and Bryan Reynolds, a breakdown

Now, there's a lot of background I need

to give you before we dive into this

breakdown, which is brought to you by

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hit the Young in the face, fractured his

nose with a fast ball. Now, I think that

was an accident. He's torn up about it.

No one wants to really look. There's a

lot of blood. Warning. A lot of blood

coming. He fractured his nose. Ew.

Gross. Terrible. Feel for him. The

pitcher doesn't want to see that. He's

like, "Oh my goodness, what have I

done?" But the Young got hit in the

head. He hit in the face. He fractured

his nose. He had to lead the game.

That's some context that is somewhat

important. Also, there's context from a

year earlier, the season before when

Jorge Lopez was pitching for the Cubs,

and he's trying to hold a three nothing

lead. He came into the game against the

Pirates. And with two runners on and no

outs, Brian Reynolds is up, the lefty,

he digs in and he's going to take a 1-1

pitch and smash it over the Ivy to tie

the game. So, it was a three nothing

lead. Now, it's three to three. Then

Andrew McCutchen comes up and he's going

to take his 1-1 pitch and he's going to

hit it over the Ivy, a 95 mile per hour

sinker in that he crushes over the wall

to give the Pirates the lead. So there

you go. There's some uh retaliation

maybe in store for getting hit

yesterday. There's retaliation maybe in

store because these guys took you deep

last year. Lopez has a history of

pitching up and in. He has a history of

kind of being a wildcard and emotional.

He he threw his glove at the ump last

year. We did a video on that and then

got DFAD because the Mets said that his

actions were not uh good. So, that's all

the context I think you need. Also, it's

a cold night and the ball might be

slippery. So, here we go. We go to that

seventh inning and I'm going to speed

roll through a bunch of these pitches to

show you he was locating pretty well.

Throwing a lot of off speed slider. Uh

this two seam that's a little up and in.

Nice location. Slider away. He's got

base runners on a run. A run came in.

And now who comes up with two outs and a

runner on second? Brian Reynolds. The

guy that took him deep to tie the game

last year. First pitch against Reynolds

is up and in and at him all the way

across. He drops his bat. He runs to

first. Lopez doesn't really react. Just

sniffs. Nose is a little runny. Just

kind of looks at him and says, "Uh,

okay. Yeah, cool. You got hit." No nod,

no nothing. Then who comes up next?

McCutchen. The guy who hit the homer off

him to give the Pirates the lead last

year. First pitch, we got a breaking

ball for a strike. And you can see Cut

kind of reacting here. Kind of uh

getting stiffened up by that. Think he

thought maybe that was going to come

right at him. That one is low and away.

And then the 1-1 pitch is scary at his

head. Drops him down. Says, "Whoa,

whoa." Walks it

off. Catch your breath. That is

uh got to be terrifying. and just drops

him to the ground. Fans are upset. Look

at this ball. Look how close that came

to his head. That's That's not good.

That woman had a really good

view. Says, "Keep that [ __ ] down,

bro. What the

[ __ ]

Damn. Hit me. Hit me. Don't hit me in

the head." It's kind of what they always

say. Walks it off. Dust it off. Lopez.

No reaction really. Shelty comes out and

I'm not positive what he says here so I

didn't put the words on the screen but I

think he says something like [ __ ]

throw that [ __ ] ball the first time.

You know a lot of time they say if

you're going to hit a guy don't let him

don't pitch to them breaking balls think

you're actually going to pitch to them

and then sneak attack them when guys are

expecting it. They'd like it to happen

on the first pitch so they can be a

little more prepared. Uh Ron Culpa the

umpire is going to like you want me to

talk to. He's like yeah go talk [ __ ]

twice. Go talk to him. Lopez tries to

talk. says, "Nope. I got to talk to my

buddies. We're going to decide if that

was intentional or not." Cuz even

without warnings, they can just eject

him if they think it's intentional.

Lopez turns around. He says, "Come on,

dog. It was over my head,

bro. Dog, let's [ __ ]

go. I didn't throw at you." Now, a lot

of people thought he was calling him

soft there. And there is one of the

broadcast. You can faintly hear the

audio. would be a mess for me to play it

for you. But uh you could faintly hear

it and you could hear this the come on

dog and then you I could was turning it

up heard my eardrums. He doesn't say

soft. I think I think what I heard him

say was dog let's [ __ ]

go. I didn't throw at you. It was at my

head. Come on, man. And then the umpires

hear all this commotion. They're like,

"Whoa, we got to snap in action. We got

to stop this." He's upset and they're

upset. Shelty runs out. Fam skips in

front of his manager says, "Get out of

here. Get out of here." O'Neal Cruz

takes Cut away. Everyone's running out.

Fam's at the front. Shelty's pointing

and yelling at someone. The manager, I

don't know. Miguel Cairo gets in the mix

on the other side. The bullpens come

out. Cold night, so they're probably

Look, Cyro's yelling like, "Get out of

here. You get out. You [ __ ] Get [ __ ] out

of here. You get out of here. [ __ ]

go." Cyro's always hot. I did a

breakdown on him recently or last year I

I think where he was the one John. So

he's mad. Umpire's got to wrap him up.

Fam's like, "Go that way, dude. You get

out of here." O'Neal Cruz, fam, get out

of here. Sticking up for their guy,

galvanizing everyone then says, "Okay,

cool. We'll leave." Yeah, we'll leave.

Umpires still have to figure out what

the ruling is. And Lopez just has to

stand around and wait for them to to

talk. And he's just watching and waiting

and hoping. And then they say, "Nah,

you're out of here." And he's like, "Oh,

come

on.

What? That's

[ __ ] That's [ __ ] It's [ __ ]

bullshit." Yeah. He's not happy. Not

happy. Walks down the steps. He's got to

go to the clubhouse now. Team's in a

tough spot. He's very slow to walk out.

Martinez trying to figure out. He's

like, "What's going on?" Huh? And then

he comes back says, "Bull

[ __ ] can't [ __ ] do that. [ __ ] are you

doing? Let's

go." So he left the clubhouse, came

back, and then David Martinez asked the

question that everyone's thinking right

now. He says, "How do you know he did it

on purpose? Nobody knows that." Right.

Right. Yeah. I mean, kind of, but it's

an educated guess. Reynolds, I think,

thinks he did it on purpose because you

could see him talk to a teammate right

now. And he says, "He told me this would

happen." So, someone told him it would

happen. So, he thinks it's on purpose.

He's like, "Yeah, he told me it was

happening." Like, are you kidding me?

What? I saw it coming and I was like,

"Here we go. Take it." Cut. It was

close. It was right over. It was right

at me. But that was way up there. Yeah.

And then someone's going to ask him

like, "You think he did on purpose?"

He's like, "I think so." He's like,

"Have you seen him before?" He's like,

"Oh, I seen him. I I parked him last

year." Yeah. It was a sinker in, so I

knew it was on. Yeah. And then this

coach on the Nat says something that I

was trying to figure out what he said

for a while. I couldn't figure it out.

And then I instead of deleting it, I

figured maybe you guys know cuz to me it

looks like he's fed up with Lopez a

little bit, but I don't want to infer if

I have no idea what he's saying. But it

looks like he points him out. He says,

"What I keep seeing is [ __ ] clown."

But I don't think that's what he

says. I don't think that's what he says.

He repeats it

twice. [ __ ] town. I don't think

that's what he's saying, but that's what

it looks like. Anyway, the inning has to

continue and Kutch's bat has to

continue. It is a 2-1 count. We have a

new pitcher in. That's ball three low

and away. And then this is ball four,

breaking ball under the zone. Cut walks

to first. Bases are now loaded. O'Neal

cruises up who had Cutch's back and he

says, "You know what, dog? I got your

back again."

Kabam Wayan watches it, looks at it,

enjoys it. Grand slam for O'Neal Cruz,

the man with two last names. Fireworks

in the sky. Pirates take the lead. And

then Lopez got suspended for three

games. So, the league said, "Yeah, we

think this is on purpose." With Direct

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