Chase Utley reached out to apologize to Ruben Tejada after Utley’s slide broke Tejada’s leg in Saturday’s National League Division Series game.
According to a series of tweets from Fox Sports’s Ken Rosenthal, Utley reached out to Tejada through David Wright to apologize for what happened during the Dodgers 5-2 victory over the Mets.
#Dodgers’ Utley sent an apology to Tejada last night through a player on the #Mets that he knows well. Intent was not to injure.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 11, 2015
Just exchanged texts with #Dodgers’ Utley. Here is what he said: “In no way shape or form was I trying to hurt Ruben…
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 11, 2015
“… I slid in hard like I have for 12 years. I feel terrible about the outcome. I've reached out to Ruben via David Wright.”
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 11, 2015
Utley is sticking to his guns here. He isn’t sorry about the slide, but merely the outcome. Utley is likely telling the truth that he wasn’t trying to injure Tejada, but this will do little to quiet the controversy that has erupted over the slide, and the debate over whether or not it was dirty.
