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Pirates player tweets apology to Gatorade cooler after dugout tirade

That doesn’t sound great, but it’s comparable to Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo at 0.0.

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The Chicago Cubs defeated the division rival Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Wild Card playoff game last Wednesday, behind a complete game shutout from untouchable ace Jake Arrieta.

The Cubs pitcher then made his way down to first. Arrieta had hit two Pirates, but there did not appear to be intent: Besides the elimination game factor, he hit Cervelli in the hand and Harrison with a breaking ball. Watson was issued a warning.

In this corner, fighting out of Pittsburgh by way of Miami, he plays for the Pirates and kind of looks like an actual pirate, Sean “Serpico” Rodriguez!

Given an evening of quiet reflection and a night of restorative sleep, however, Rodriguez is now sufficiently contrite. Rodriguez took to Twitter to apologize on Thursday “for allowing my emotions to control my actions in a negative manner”.

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“I … spoke to the cooler, apologized personally, and he’s forgiven me as Christ forgives all”, Rodriguez wrote.

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