Joe Kelly, of the Los Angeles Dodgers spoke about the penalty, now reduced from 5 games, which gave him MLB and also took the opportunity to vent and talk about the scandal of sign stealing illegal of Astros from Houston.
Initially, MLB announced an 8-game penalty for Joe Kelly for pitching to Alex Bregman’s head and Carlos Correa during a game between Astros and Dodgers.
However, Kelly made fun of Correa after striking him out saying “Nice swing, bitch” and making funny faces, which caused an exchange of words between both players and that the benches of both teams were emptied.
Joe Kelly He assured that the sanction was “crazy”, because he did not even hit someone, nor was he expelled from the game or something similar.
Carlos Correa and Joe Kelly exchanged words after Kelly struck out Correa. Benches cleared following the exchange. pic.twitter.com/sVHaibpN2y
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“I distanced myself socially. I walked away. I didn’t come close, and I followed all the CDC guidelines, and the people on the other side (the Astros) didn’t… They got off their bench, walked towards us. Carlos Correa spat at our team. I do not know if it was [a] me. He spat out of his mouth … This guy walks into our dugout and then spits, as long as I follow all the rules, I get eight games, “he said. Kelly.
The pitcher of the Dodgers He also assured that he received insults from the manager of the Astros Dusty Baker, but he didn’t get a penalty for that.
“They’ve got a manager on their side, literally yelling at me, ‘Put your skinny little ass on the mound.’ So my bad words have eight games and her bad words zero? That makes a lot of sense, right? Welcome to planet earth. A debacle, ”Joe Kelly said of the decision to MLB.
Even though Joe Kelly was not in the Dodgers in 2017, when they lost the World Series to the Astros Thanks to the illegal theft of signs, the pitcher assured that he was upset with the players for having been “snitches” in order not to receive sanctions from MLB.
Remember that Rob Manfred granted immunity to all the players of the Astros in exchange for information about the illegal sign stealing. Thanks to that, manager AJ Hinch and bench coach Alex Cora were suspended and fired by their teams thanks to the players.
Joe Kelly threw a 96 mph fastball at Alex Bregman ????
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“Yes, everyone is involved. But the way that [el sistema de robo de señas] It was managed there, it was not the coaching staff … They are not the bosses in charge of it, they are the players. So now the players get immunity, and all they do is rat out like a little bitch, and they don’t have to be fined, they don’t have to lose games, “he said. Joe Kelly about.
“When you take someone’s livelihood… to save your own ass, that’s what I don’t like. Cheat? They cheated. Everyone knows they are cheats. They know they are cheats. It’s over. That has been there. But now they ruin other people’s lives, so they screwed up.
When you stain someone’s name to save your own name, this is one of the worst things you could probably do… That really annoys me. I think I’ll be irritated forever “, he concluded Joe Kelly.
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