LOS ANGELES – As a Cubs rookie pitcher in 2006, Rich Hill earned a place in Cubs-Sox lore with comments after the A.J. Pierzynski-Michael Barrett fight that set off White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen.
Thirteen years later, he’s the only one left in the majors from that incident and its airtime-guzzling fallout, and the 37-year-old Dodgers starter has a new take all these years later on Cubs-Sox – and Dodgers-Angels for that matter.
“There’s no such thing as an interleague rivalry,” he said. “I think baseball would love to have that fantasy of like, ‘Yes, this is [legitimate].