Baseball’s unwritten rules remain that way because if you actually write them out, you’d see how stupid they are. And Tony La Russa just sided with them over his own player. Good job skip.
Think about this...La Russa is ok with Yermín Mercedes being thrown at by the other team, but not with him hitting a home run. I don’t care how many runs the White Sox were up, or if it were me throwing the pitch, there’s no universe where that makes sense.
He also called Mercedes clueless when he’s the one who recently admitted he didn’t know an actual rule.