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Column: Manny Machado play ‘bush league’? Hardly

Hear from Padres third baseman Manny Machado and manager Andy Green after Machado was called for interference and Andy Green was ejected from the game.

Diamondbacks broadcast team calls out Padres star for Tuesday incident that led to Andy Green ejection

Everyone knew this was coming, right? This was telegraphed Western Union-style, the second Manny Machado climbed into a Padres uniform. The moment a whiff of on-field controversy surfaced, the sentence would be delivered.

Guilty.

Of course, Machado intended to (barely, almost, maybe) brush Diamondbacks catcher John Ryan Murphy on a sixth-inning pop-up Tuesday during Arizona’s 8-5 win at Petco Park.