Round 2 was Saturday. St. Louis' Kolten Wong was plunked twice, and he threw his bat in disgust after Fernando Rodney hit him with a pitch in the eighth. Home-plate umpire Bruce Dreckman then issued a warning. Rondon knew that, but came inside too far on Garcia and hit him. Both Rondon and Cubs manager Joe Maddon were tossed.
"That's an interpretation by the umpires," Maddon said. "Obviously, we're not trying to [hit anyone]. The umpires had the ability to exercise their own baseball acumen and judgement in that moment. There's a lot of pressure coming from the other side to do what eventually did happen.