"Soler had homered off of Lopez in his first at-bat and gotten plunked in his second. That, one might think, would be the end of it, honor restored all around in whatever silly red-assed code required it."
"To me, this makes sense. The baseball lives on the mound. That is its house. It leaves for work from time to time but it always returns home."
"A pitcher using a bat? That would be inconceivable, and why everyone got so het up over Roger Clemens flinging lumber at Mike Piazza. It was an inversion of the natural order of things."
A recent bench-clearing brawl involved Braves pitcher Reynaldo Lopez and Angels outfielder Jorge Soler. Tensions escalated after Soler homered off Lopez and was later hit by a pitch. Lopez's pitch to the backstop in the fifth inning prompted Soler to confront him. Soler expressed dissatisfaction with Lopez's response. The brawl was notable for the potential use of a baseball as a weapon, highlighting the unique dynamics between pitchers and batters in baseball.
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