Giants reliever Hunter Strickland is a pretty poor sport when things aren’t going his way, and things weren’t going his way on Wednesday night.
Strickland entered the bottom of the 6th inning of Game 2 of the World Series in Kansas City with two on, one out and the Royals up 3-2. Strickland uncorked a wild pitch to move the runners to second and third, and then he allowed a 2-run double to Salvador Perez and 2-run home run to Omar Infante. The game quickly went from being close to almost out of hand, and most of it was thanks to him.
That was the 5th home run of the postseason Strickland allowed, and he decided to take things out on Perez by yelling at the Royals catcher after Infante’s home run.
The yelling between them led the Royals to come out of the dugout onto the field to sort out matters.
Perez even pointed to his eyes to ask Strickland why the pitcher was looking at him:
It looked like Strickland said to Perez, “get in the dugout, boy!” which would obviously be extremely disrespectful.
Recall that Strickland also got into it with Bryce Harper after allowing a second homer to the Nats youngster in the NLDS.
After the game, Strickland recognized he was wrong.
Mea culpa from Strickland. "My emotions got the best of me. He has pride, I have pride. You can't take it back."
— Andrew Baggarly (@CSNBaggs) October 23, 2014
