Craig Gentry and Josh Reddick were the two A’s players most visibly agitated by seeing the Royals’ Yordano Ventura hit Oakland third baseman Brett Lawrie with a pitch in the fourth inning Saturday.
Both had to be talked down by teammates and coaches after strongly reacting to what the A’s perceived as a purpose pitch from Ventura, payback for Lawrie’s slide that took Alcides Escobar out of the starting lineup with a left knee injury for the last two days of the weekend series.