Tossing the ball back to the pitcher after being hit is an old hitter’s tough guy ploy - “you don’t throw hard enough to hurt me, here’s the ball back meat”.

I’m sure Chen was terrified for a few moments. Votto is an intense dude as it stands, I can only imagine how scary it would be to see him approaching you with a bat moments after you hit him with a projectile.

Chen 2018: 6-12, 4.79 ERA, 133.1 IP, 111 k’s, 1.33 WHIP

HBP = fine.
HBPA =

I would bet on a dropped 3rd strike, with Davis getting on base.

Yesterday, a reader emailed us to call Wei-Yin Chen “the Chris Davis of pitchers,” and now I want the two to face off. One of them would have to succeed, right?

Surprised he didn’t apologize for being in the way of that pitch.

Well I mean, he IS Canadian.

If this kid had any sense, he’d drop out of law school yesterday. 

Hey man, you gotta get those issue spotting points...it was an assault first, and THEN a battery.... should we do an IRAC exercise?

How’s Torts going this semester?

Great job, Tony Precum.

any team that starts Jordan Henderson is not a real title contender

Nothing screams “keep politics out of sports” like whining to the president about your sports book.

At this point, the only successful books associated with Clay Travis are sportsbooks.

I dunno at this point I would put my money on Darnold...

Makes more sense in French, apparently.

BUT IS HE ELITE?

Is there a word (probably a German one) for when you read a word over and over again and it starts to lose all meaning? Because I have that now.