Rangers Rip Astros For HBP Fracas

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Rangers Rip Astros For HBP Fracas 

Post#1 » by RealGM Wiretap » Sat Oct 21, 2023 5:12 am

Adolis García took a 99-mph fastball to his left arm in Friday\'s eighth inning and immediately turned to Houston Astros catcher Martín Maldonado.

\"Why like that?!\" García yelled, according to Maldonado.

\"Like what?\" Maldonado responded.

Two innings earlier, García hit a three-run homer that gave his Texas Rangers a two-run lead and celebrated emphatically, walking halfway up the first-base line and slamming his bat onto the Globe Life Field turf before making his way around the bases. Less than three months before that, García and Maldonado had jawed at each other at home plate in another benches-clearing incident. It all raced through García\'s mind in a split second.

\"I felt like that hit by pitch could\'ve been worse,\" García said, \"and I told him that

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