“I’ll be a part of this world” and threw that pill right in that hayseed’s shoulder.
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It mattered little that Montero, before Wednesday, had not faced Weaver since 2012. We are all Jered Weaver on that mound, staring down a guy who looks like a steakhead version of Todd Barry, and he’s telling you to hold up, then dropping an F-bomb and looking at the ump for confirmation. Montero is now 6-for-12 with five home runs against Weaver in his career.
In San Francisco, Giants pitcher Jake Peavy, who fanned eight batters in six innings, homered through the low-hovering mist for his first long ball in more than nine years.
“It came gradually”, he said.
Iwakuma is expected to make his next start on schedule. “I’ve been battling this situation for a while”.
In Atlanta, David Price allowed one run in seven innings and Russell Martin hit a homer and drove in four runs as Toronto beat Shelby Miller and the Braves to protect its AL East division lead.
The Angels trail the Astros (80-71) by 3 1-2 games and the Minnesota Twins by three games for the AL’s second wild card.
The game grew testy in the fifth inning after Kyle Seager asked for, and was granted, time by umpire Brian O’Nora. Following a brief delay, Seager indicated he was ready and Weaver responded with an 83 miles per hour fastball into Seager’s ribs.
“I was surprised he hit me, because if you hit me there, it’s pretty obvious what’s going to happen”. “I was calling time out”. “I was on the rubber ready to go, he’s standing in the box”. I had my hand up the whole time.
“I guess he didn’t particularly care for it”. It’s when we’re both ready.
With two outs in the fifth and the Mariners ahead, 3-0, Seager raised his arm to call timeout before a 1-and-0 pitch, a lengthy request that Weaver took exception to. Hard words.
Seager suggested after the game that Weaver effectively “quit on his team” because he knew he’d be ejected for hitting him following their verbal spat in the fifth inning. An out later, Weaver gave up a homer to Montero.
In Philadelphia, Jayson Werth slugged two homers, Bryce Harper also went deep and Gio Gonzalez tied his career high with 12 strikeouts in Washington’s triumph over the Phillies.
Montero followed with a no-doubt drive to left. “All the pitchers want to get in their rhythm”.
The Mariners then saw a scoring chance slip away later in the inning on a base-running mistake by Ketel Marte after a one-out single. They both had something to say in the clubhouse.
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But Marte, as he scrambled to his feet, never actually touched second. Weaver passed Nolan Ryan for the second-most starts in Angels history with 289. And Marte was out. In the fourth, Nelson Cruz led off with a clean single into left.
