In the court of public opinion, Chicago White Sox outfielder Adam Eaton already has won his case against Major League Baseball, which suspended him one game and issued a fine for his role in last Thursday’s bench-clearing incident at Guaranteed Rate Field.
As baseball brouhahas go, the one precipitated by Eaton’s shove of Cleveland Indians shortstop Andrés Giménez after being called out for coming off second base was a mild one.
Like most bench-clearing incidents in the COVID-19 era, it mostly was for show with everyone coming to the defense of their teammate.