Hence the rule Think twice before engaging a man who hits home runs for a living and outweighs you by 40 pounds. At such times morality and causality are not important. Your intent is irrelevant. History is moot. Only physics matters.

Greinke forgot. He not only stood his ground on the mound. In what may be the most foolhardy deed a 195 pound pitcher has ever done He charged right back at 240 pound Carlos Quentin the slugger he had just hit in the shoulder with a fastball. Now Greinke who ploughed his left shoulder directly into Quentin will miss weeks and perhaps months changing the entire landscape of the National League pennant race.

Greinke did nothing wrong. But he sure didn t do everything right either. Life is like that. It s not enough to be technically in the right. You have to survive too. The Dodgers must be delighted that they paid Greinke $146 million so that he could act like a macho idiot.

Sorting out motivation on Greinke Quentin will never end. True they have a history. Greinke has hit him twice before. He always seems to think I m hitting him on purpose Greinke said but that s not the case. Hmmmm always Dodger announcer Vin Scully in real time said he thought Greinke might have been retaliating for a Dodger who was plunked earlier in the game. Scully once made a mistake but in another century.

On the other had Greinke has plausible deniability few pitchers with a 2 1 lead in the sixth inning would ever dream of drilling the leadoff made with a full count pitch. Maybe if the guy had burned down your house that morning but otherwise probably not.

Quentin may face discipline. You really aren t allowed to charge the mound. And he s a plate diver who forces pitchers out of self preservation to pound him inside. That s why he has been hit more often than anybody in baseball since 2008 and 114 times in all. He invites it. He knows it. That s why he has no history of mound charging well that and a Stanford education. And he didn t look like he was going to charge Greinke.

That is until Greinke started talking at him. The only proper words at such times are oh bleep and a look of self disgust or perhaps it got away. During the five slow steps Quentin took toward the mound deciding what to do Greinke picked the wrong words. When the pitcher fired down his glove and charged too that act may give us a tip as to his state of mind.

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