Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar didn’t like the hard slide by Oakland’s Brett Lawrie in Friday’s game, and Escobar said he didn’t receive Lawrie’s postgame text-message apology.
That was the response from Escobar before Saturday’s Royals-A’s game that he did not start while he recovers from the knee injury delivered by Lawrie at second base.
After the game, Lawrie said a hard baseball play was his lone motive. Escobar was receiving treatment Friday and not available to comment. He did on Saturday and said Lawrie was being overly aggressive.
“In that situation for me, that’s a dirty slide,” Escobar said.