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Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill explained why he didn’t like Trump’s World Series tweet

Dodgers starting pitcher Rich Hill wasn’t happy that despite everything in the current news cycle, the president would choose to spend time tweeting about Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts.

After President Trump’s tweet on Saturday night – in which he criticized Roberts’s polarizing decision to remove Hill with the Dodgers up 4-0 in the seventh inning of Game 4 of the World Series – it was the veteran pitcher’s turn to be the critic.

“There was a mass shooting yesterday,” Hill told reporters. “The focus, in my opinion, of the president is to be on the country, and not on moves that are made in a World Series game.