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El umpire Phil Cuzzi confrontó al dugout de Giants y provocó a Gabe Kapler para expulsarlo

Todos sabemos que se necesita mucho para que Gabe Kapler, mánager de los Giants, sea expulsado de un partido. Es muy raro que sienta la necesidad de engancharse en discusiones con los umpires, siempre ha dicho que la mayoría de las expulsiones son …

Todos sabemos que se necesita mucho para que Gabe Kapler, mánager de los Giants, sea expulsado de un partido. Es muy raro que sienta la necesidad de engancharse en discusiones con los umpires, siempre ha dicho que la mayoría de las expulsiones son puro show.

Pero el martes, el umpire Phil Cuzzi claramente tocó una fibra sensible de Kapler, ¿y saben qué? Kapler tenía todo el derecho de enojarse.

A la mitad de la sexta entrada, Jarlin Garcia, pitcher de los Giants, intercambió palabras con Mookie Betts y con los Dodgers cuando imitó  la celebración del dugout de los Dodgers. Cuzzi lo vio y entonces siguió a Garcia hasta el dugout para reprender al pitcher sobre su actitud poco deportiva.

Y ahí fue cuando Kapler intervino.

Traducción: Un Gabe Kapler enardecido fue expulsado tras el intercambio de palabras entre Jarlin Garcia y Mookie Betts al final de la sexta alta.

 

Durante el argumento, Kapler recibió una expulsión, la primera como mánager de los Giants, pero la verdad toda la secuencia regresa hasta Cuzzi. No hay ninguna razón por la que un umpire de las grandes ligas vaya a un dugout e imparta una Ted Talk sobre las reglas no escritas. Betts pudo haberse molestado con la celebración (especialmente porque Dodgers iba adelante en el marcador), pero es un partido entre rivales y el trabajo de Cuzzi no es tratar de controlar las celebraciones en representación de los Dodgers.

No es de sorprenderse que los fans de la MLB apreciaron que Kapler defendiera a su pitcher: Cuzzi se pasó de la raya.

Así reaccionó Twitter

Traducción: Phil Cuzzi despertó al oso.

 

Traducción 1: Entonces el umpire siguió a Gabe hasta el dugout y Gabe es expulsado del partido, ok.
Traducción 2:  Esto hizo que expulsaran a Gabe Kapler por primera vez como mánager de #SFGiants.

 

Traducción 1: Debió haber sido realmente malo si Gabe se enojó de esa forma. ¿Acaso el umpire le habrá dicho que comiera carbohidratos?
Traducción 2: Un Gabe Kapler enardecido fue expulsado tras el intercambio de palabras entre Jarlin Garcia y Mookie Betts al final de la sexta alta.

 

Traducción: Wow, Gabe está igual de enojado que yo cada vez que he visto a los Giants esta temporada.

 

También hay que darle crédito a Kapler: para su primera expulsión con los Giants, ciertamente la exprimió lo más que pudo.

 

Artículo traducido por Ana Lucía Toledo

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Umpire Phil Cuzzi baited Gabe Kapler into a rare ejection by confronting Giants dugout

What was the ump even doing?!

It notably takes a lot for Giants manager Gabe Kapler to get ejected from a ballgame. He rarely feels the need to get into heated exchanges with umpires, claiming that most ejections are just for show.

But on Thursday, umpire Phil Cuzzi clearly struck a nerve with Kapler. And you know what — Kapler had every right to be upset.

In the middle of the sixth inning, Giants pitcher Jarlin García had an exchange with Mookie Betts and the Dodgers when he mimicked the Dodgers’ dugout celebration. Cuzzi saw that and followed Garcia to the dugout to lecture the pitcher about sportsmanship.

That was when Kapler intervened.

Kapler was ejected — the first time as Giants manager — during his fiery argument, but really, the whole sequence came back to Cuzzi. There’s no reason for a big-league umpire to go to a dugout and give a Ted Talk about unwritten rules. Betts may have taken issue with the celebration (especially given the score at the time with the Dodgers leading), but it’s a rivalry game and not Cuzzi’s job to police celebrations on the Dodgers’ behalf.

No wonder MLB fans appreciated Kapler standing up for his pitcher. Cuzzi crossed the line.

Gabe Kapler’s hilarious beard vs. mustache debate is the new hot dog/sandwich debate

This is a very thought-provoking question: If you have beard do you also have a mustache?

San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler has sparked a debate that might sound silly when you first hear it but then when you give it some more thought, well, yeah it’s still pretty silly.

And silly is OK. Silly is fine. Silly is encouraged!

Kapler, who earlier this year had a great take on the dumb unwritten rules of baseball, asked a very important question while talking to reporters on Wednesday.- if you have a beard do you also have a mustache?

See, that’s a little more thought-provoking than you thought it was going to be.

Here he is breaking it down:

I’m team yes you have a mustache if you also have a beard. You can have a beard without having a mustache. So the mustache is an addition to the beard.

Twitter had some thoughts on this.

Nationals’ Alcides Escobar had a lame tantrum over the Giants breaking baseball’s unwritten rules

You play to win the game.

If Major League Baseball is ever truly going to grow the game, it has to find a way to move past the unwritten rules. At this point, it’s just getting exhausting.

The Washington Nationals were upset with the Giants on Friday night after the Giants’ Thairo Estrada stole second base and later tried to score on a ninth-inning single with San Francisco already holding a 7-1 lead. Nationals shortstop Alcides Escobar threw Estrada out at home as he tried to tack on that late run, but he needed to be restrained as he shouted at the Giants dugout for having the nerve to continue to play baseball.

This isn’t the first time this season that teams have gotten upset with the Giants for trying to manufacture runs with a lead. The Padres called them out for trying to score up nine in the second (!!!) inning. But as Giants manager Gabe Kapler explained on Friday, the Giants had their own seven-run inning in that game. It wasn’t out of the realm of possibility for the Nationals to come back with a big ninth inning of their own. So yeah, he wanted to continue to put pressure on the defense.

I know that baseball just agreed on a new CBA, but if players are going to throw tantrums when a winning team tries with a big lead, they really have to get a mercy rule in there. It’s totally unfair to expect a team to straight-up stop trying when they have a lead. It’s professional baseball, and players get judged on performance. Players get incentives based on specific statistical thresholds. So, why should Estrada not steal a base? Why should Brandon Crawford not swing away up six? Plus, six runs isn’t that big of a lead.

The Nationals had no reason to be upset, and fans rightfully mocked them for the tantrum.

Gabe Kapler is the hero we need in the fight against baseball’s idiotic unwritten rules

Teams like the Padres need stop being so lame.

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Baseball can be a fun sport. It can also be a very silly sport with grown men getting upset over some dumb unwritten rules that nobody with a brain should be following anymore.

The latest examples of this came the other night in San Francisco when Giants center fielder Steven Duggar had the gall to steal second base in the second inning with his team leading San Diego by nine runs.

The Padres were not happy about that at all even though it was just the second inning. (For those wondering, yes, MLB games still consist of nine full innings.)

Things got even more lame for the Padres when they later got mad at Giants shortstop Mauricio Dubon for having the audacity to bunt his way on to base with his team leading 10-1 in the sixth inning.

How dare he do a normal baseball thing!? Bunting to get on base in the middle of the game? That sort of stuff can not happen in this game of, er, baseball!

Padres manager Bob Melvin got salty about that because apparently if you have a big lead you’re supposed to stop trying because the other team – whose roster is made up entirely of adults – doesn’t want their little feelings to get hurt.

You know who was really upset about that bunt? Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer. I’m not sure if this fella is ever going to recover from that moment.

Look what he said this after the game:

“I definitely told him how I felt, how we felt about it,” said Hosmer, following the Giants’ 13-2 victory at Oracle Park. “He said it was a sign given to him by their staff. I just told him I think you’ve got to be a little bit smarter in that situation. You’ve been playing professional ball for a good amount of time obviously if you’re at this level. You’ve got to be smarter than that.”

Isn’t that just the saddest thing ever? You’re not supposed to bunt when you have a big lead in the sixth? You have to be smarter than that? Projection, much!?

Thankfully Giants manager Gabe Kapler is the hero we’re looking for in this battle against the dumb unwritten rules of baseball. After the game he rightfully backed up both decisions (which were just to play the game of baseball the way it’s supposed to be played) and made complete sense in doing so.

He said:

“I fully support both of those decisions. Our goal is not exclusively to win one game in a series. It’s to try to win the entire series. Sometimes, that means trying to get a little deeper into the opposition’s ‘pen. I understand that many teams don’t love that strategy.”

“And I get why. It’s something that we talked about as a club before the season and that we were comfortable going forward with that strategy. It’s not to be disrespectful in any way. It’s because we feel very cool and strategic. It’s the best way to win a series. When I say cool, I mean calm. We’re not emotional about it. We’re not trying to hurt anybody. We just want to score as many runs as possible, force the other pitcher to throw as many pitches as possible. If other clubs decide that they want to do the same thing to us, we’re not going to have any issue with it.”

THANK YOU, GABE KAPLER. THANK YOU.

Imagine having to defend yourself for making decisions to play the game the way it’s supposed to be played.

I still can’t believe the Padres (who, again, are a professional sports team made up entirely of adults) got mad over a play in the second inning of a game and then got really mad over another one in the sixth inning of a game. The Giants did nothing wrong. You want to score as much as you can. If you’re the other team and you can’t stop them from doing that then don’t get mad at the other team, get mad at yourselves!

This isn’t 6-year-old tee-ball in the park, Padres.

Kapler and others need to keep pushing back on these ridiculous unwritten rules.

And the Padres need to play better baseball and stop being so lame.

Quick hits: John Sterling’s hilarious blown home-run call… Consensus NFL mock draft… Kershaw pulled from perfect game… And more.

– Yankees announcer John Sterling thought for sure that Giancarlo Stanton had hit a home run last night against the Blue Jays. Instead, the ball landed in an outfielder’s glove on the warning track. This was hilarious.

– The 2022 NFL Draft is quickly approaching and here is a consensus look at how the internet sees it playing out.

– The Dodgers pulled Clayton Kershaw after seven innings of a perfect game and MLB fans were crushed. Kershaw later explained why he was cool with the decision.

– My pal Bryan Kalbrosky has a great Q&A with Trae Young, who led the Hawks to a big play-in game win over the Hornets last night.

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Giants manager Gabe Kapler kneels with players during national anthem

“I wanted them to know that I wasn’t pleased with the way our country has handled police brutality.”

Several players on the San Francisco Giants, as well as manager Gabe Kapler, kneeled during the playing of the national anthem during an exhibition game this week, a way of showing their disapproval with the violence facing Black Americans, said Kapler.

Kapler said he told the team before the game he planned on kneeling, and said players were free to join him or not.

“I wanted them to know that I wasn’t pleased with the way our country has handled police brutality, and I told them I wanted to amplify their voices and I wanted to amplify the voice of the Black community and marginalized communities as well,” Kapler said, via USA TODAY Sports.

“So I told them that I wanted to use my platform to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with the way we’ve handled racism in our country. I wanted to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with our clear systemic racism in our country, and I wanted them to know that they got to make their own decisions, and we would respect and support those decisions. I wanted them to feel safe in speaking up.”

USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale spoke with Bruce Maxwell, the former MLB catcher who faced harsh backlash for kneeling during the anthem before a game in 2017.

Via the article:

“If I was there, I would give Kapler a big hug, shake his hand, and tell him I’m honored to be next to him,” Maxwell said. “That was a big step. For somebody in that position, to put his title aside, to make himself vulnerable in that situation and stand for what is right, is big for humanity.

“It’s nothing to do with the flag, not the military, it’s a message standing up for the right cause.’’

Read more over at USA TODAY Sports.

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Alyssa Nakken spends time as first-base coach in San Francisco Giants’ exhibition game

Alyssa Nakken became the first woman to coach in an on-field capacity in MLB

Alyssa Nakken became the first woman to coach in an on-field capacity in MLB when she took over the duties as first-base coach Monday during the San Francisco Giants’ exhibition game with the Oakland Athletics.

In the late innings, manager Gabe Kapler sent Nakken out as the first-base coach. Nakken had signed with San Francisco in January, becoming the first female coach on a major league staff in baseball history.

At Sacramento State from 2009-12, Nakken was a three-time all-conference player and four-time Academic All-American.

That wasn’t the only news from the game. Kapler took a knee with other players during the national anthem.

WATCH: San Francisco Giants hire Gabe Kapler as new manager

Gabe Kapler is now the manager of the San Francisco Giants.

About a month after being fired by the Phillies, Gabe Kapler is now the manager of the San Francisco Giants. He takes over for Bruce Bochy, who retired this fall after 25 years as a manager, including 13 seasons with the Giants.

Kapler was fired Oct. 10 after two years in Philadelphia, where his squad hovered around .500 both seasons.

Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi said at the end of San Francisco’s 2019 season that the number one quality in their next manager would be relationship building with the players.

Zaidi and Kapler worked together a few years ago in Los Angeles, where Zaidi was the Dodgers’ general manager and Kapler served as the director of player development.

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