Something smells in the Blue Jays’ dugout, and it’s not a rift between Toronto’s best player and Manager John Gibbons.
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Blue Jays designated hitter Josh Donaldson and manager John Gibbons had to be separated after an argument during the team’s game against the Yankees Wednesday afternoon.
The incident started when Donaldson threw his bat upon entering the dugout. Donaldson, frustrated over his strikeout, likely didn’t care.
After the game, Gibbons also tried to laugh off the fight telling the media it was over the bat Donaldson used. “There’s a lot of back and forth”, the manager added. He took the same one up there a second time and that didn’t work.
“Hit my bat against the thing, Gibby asked me what kind of cologne I was wearing”, Donaldson jokingly told reporters.
“And then he got kind of close to me and got a good whiff of it and I said ‘Hey, man, back up. He chose to break it, so I went down and told him, ‘You should have listened to me'”.
“Yeah, I think he liked it, too”, Donaldson said of Tulowitzki’s opinions on his new fragrance. Gibbons was right about the bat, though.
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The Yankees fell 7 1/2 games behind the Blue Jays as CC Sabathia allowed seven runs and nine hits in six innings. Donaldson jammed his thumb during his next at-bat and had to leave the game. This just got real. Toronto’s Edwin Encarnacion ground into the game-ending play. It was the first time in the American League and the first time since September 29, 2009, when Arizona’s Miguel Montero and San Francisco’s Bengie Molina did it.
