Monday marked the first game of a series between the National League’s top two teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves. And in the fourth inning, things got a little tense.
It started innocently enough, when Atlanta’s Marcell Ozuna led the bottom of the fourth inning off with a routine flyout to left field. But his backswing caught the helmet of Los Angeles catcher, Will Smith. And while the catcher showed better restraint than his acting namesake, he was not happy about it.
Smith confronted Ozuna about it. Ozuna threw his hands up, as if to apologize and say that he didn’t do it on purpose.