Any rule that isn’t worth writing down isn’t worth much. Or anything, really.
Baseball is full of these, apparently. The unwritten rules of the game are basically someone getting triggered while losing and trying to claim a moral high ground.
Among these rules may or may not be swinging at a 3-0 pitch in the late innings (undefined) while leading comfortably (undefined).
That’s what San Diego’s Fernando Tatis Jr. did Monday night, delivering an 8th-inning grand slam to extend the Padres lead to 14-3 over Texas. San Diego went on to win, 14-4.
Rangers manager Chris Woodward got chapped and complained, although not before one of his pitchers, Ian Gibaut, threw a ball behind the head of San Diego’s Manny Machado in presumed retaliation.