Boston Fans Cheer ARod Hit By Pitch [Vanity]

Vanity | 8/18/2013 | Self

[PieterCasparzen]

After throwing at ARod several times - even behind him - when a pitch finally hit him high on his back, a large number of the fans at Fenway actually loudly cheered.

Disgusting.

I'd walk off the field if I was playing for the Yankees.

That's pure evil.

You don't cheer a supposed professional pitcher hitting a batter on purpose.

I have NO desire to see Boston-NY games the rest of this year.

I could care less about any media-hype about supposed competition between the two teams. As far as I'm concerned it's a media scam to get a broader audience.

It's not about baseball.

[Past Your Eyes]

Looked that way to me.
Middlebrooks just hit one into the bullpen off Sabathia. Another overpriced Yankee purchase.

[aliquando]

Went to a Red Sox game in 190. I was on a tour of classic ball parks with a buddy of mine. We were sitting in right field. I was wearing my Braves hat. Two drunk females sitting behind us were cursing us and harassing us for eight innings. The cops finally tossed them before the ninth. In Atlanta they would have been tossed in the 2nd. That was my impression of Boston fans.

[hole_n_one]

It seems that your knowledge of the history of this game could fit into this with plenty of room to spare......

Yeah, never before has a MLB player been intentionally hit by a pitch and everybody in the ball park knew it was coming.

[discostu]

I got no problem cheering it, he’s an overpriced jerk, but given how crappy he’s playing I do question the strategy.

[llevrok]

I agree.

The Dodgers great Don Drysdale always said that when an intentional walk was on, he’d rather just hit the batter and save three pitches. That WAS baseball.

[dfwgator]

I wonder how many Yankees’ fans were silently cheering the beaning?

[PieterCasparzen]

Ray Chapman? You have to reach back to 1920 to an era where people didn’t even wear batting helmets (and spitballs weren’t yet banned) to make your example?

Ron Cey, Gossage. Cey lived, of course, but I think he kind of got his bell rung, and I doubt he'd recommend a nice afternoon of entertainment where pitchers hit batters in the head.

Maybe you're a ballplayer and you've been hit in the head by a 95mph pitch.

I'd certainly be all ears for folks in that category as to whether purposely hitting batters with pitches is a good reason for a hearty cheer from the crowd.

[cripplecreek]

Miguel Cabrera is actually on line to win a second triple crown. He's already ahead of where he was last year at this time.

He ended last nights game with a first pitch walk off home run then today he hit a first pitch 2 run homer in his first at bat. They have to pitch to him because if they don't, they walk into Fielder's wheelhouse and his highest batting average is after a walk to Cabrera.

[sten]

liberal city. liberal team. liberal player.

my care levels are zer0

[Hegewisch Dupa]

when it acts like a man, it will get treated like a man. And I guess will just have to try out your cute lil hypothesis to see if it’s reality or hyperbole.

[dfwgator]

No different than hockey fans cheering a fight when their player decks an opponent.

[Past Your Eyes]

I like Prince. He may be the ugliest player around. “;^)

[Past Your Eyes]

I like Prince. He may be the ugliest player around. “;^)

[hole_n_one]

Is your issue with the tactic of hitting a batter intentionally or with the positive reaction of the fans in the stands to that strategy?

[dfwgator]

I hope SI is better at coverage baseball than they are predicting the Stanley Cup Finals.

[PieterCasparzen]

Alex Rodriguez is in for some tough times now that it has gotten out there that he ratted out other major league players in this latest steroid scandal. Getting hit by a pitch is the least of his worries right now.

But the old "tradition"... if us baseball "purists" want to go that far... this means that a Yankee pitcher should bean a Boston player. Now, if that guy went to the hospital, some Boston fans would say "not fair".

To that type of fan, they always want to win, they want free rein for their team to hit the other team with pitches to "teach them lessons", with no retaliation. Maybe after the game they could all brawl in the parking lot. Oh, wait, that is an old Boston sporting tradition from what I understand.

His career will soon be over and any MLB records he holds will be tarnished with the infamous "asterisk".

Anybody with ANY steriods, once it's proven, in my mind I erase all their records.

Even without that, today's equipment, data analysis, diet and training makes it so that it is WAAAAAYYYYY easier than back in the day. No comparison.

But I logically have to draw the line at chemical cheating, which might as well be a bionic arm, IMHO.

I was not even looking forward to ARod coming back. I knew it would be so much pressure on him and his numbers have been going steadily downhill since his first year. I thought not much would come of him coming back and he'd wind up riding the bench.

But IMHO, he's in the appeal process which says he can play. So get on with it.

Joe G said as much the other day. Players think about playing while they're on the field; if they don't, they don't last long.

[Rome2000]

The Bronx isn’t exactly etiquette school either.

A-Rod deserves to get hit by a pitch for dating Madonna, never mind what else he did.

[cripplecreek]

He’s got a great public image and I think its the real deal. He hit a home run last night and immediately found a camera to wish his son a Happy Birthday.

He took a ball in the “Downtown business district” today. He completed the play but he was hurting.

[Rebelbase]

Video of hit while it lasts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TxQSYWu61I

[dfwgator]

Remember what his "classy" ex-wife once wore in the stands.