Pirates Prospects · May 31, 2018
Gajtka: Pirates Handled Ambiguous Slide Controversy Appropriately
I have not played Major League Baseball. I have not ever played a legitimate baseball game, in fact. (Hope you don't think less of me now. Perhaps I've revealed too much.)
As such, I find myself woefully underqualified to determine whether the Pirates should have retaliated against Anthony Rizzo and the Cubs for the big first baseman's takeout slide of Elias Díaz on Monday afternoon at PNC Park.
If the widely disparate viewpoints expressed in the aftermath of MLB's latest rules controversy didn't convince you of the ambiguity of the moment, then the league office's flip-flop on the legality of Rizzo's technique should have.