We’ve been down this road before. Unfortunately, we’ve been down it a lot, recently. A pitcher makes a bad pitch and a batter hits it a long way. The batter looks at the ball, or flips his bat, and the pitcher gets upset about it and decides he’s going to teach the hitter a lesson the next time. Rather than simply trying to not let the guy hit a baseball 700 feet, he throws the baseball at the hitter instead. And for the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates, this seems to happen far too often.
Back in early April we saw Derek Dietrich hit two long home runs off of Chris Archer.