What do ya do?

[billybud]

Your batter hits a home run. The next batter up, on the first pitch is drilled between the shoulders on a pitch with intent...(and it just happened 5 minutes ago in a game I'm watching..FSU-Ga.).

What do you do? The coach raise hell with the ump?, throw at their guy?..what?

[KC Shox]

What was the score at the time it happened? Was FSU hootin' and hollerin' like a bunch of rabid apes? How do you know someone wasn't chipping at the teeth.

I can't recall the last time Wichita State threw at a guy except for a K-State versus WSU game back in 2000 I believe when they smoked us at our place like 18-5.

[billybud]

Naw...just a PO'd pitcher I think...the coach did pull him after the batter was able to get up...everything settled down when he walked off.

But, when a guy is down with the trainers checking on him, and it as obviously deliberate...it does make the game uglier than need be.

[WstateU]

What was the score at the time it happened? Was FSU hootin' and hollerin' like a bunch of rabid apes? How do you know someone wasn't chipping at the teeth.

I can't recall the last time Wichita State threw at a guy except for a K-State versus WSU game back in 2000 I believe when they smoked us at our place like 18-5.

[JohnnieBallgame]

If you are absolutely, positively, certain it was intentional...

As soon as it is convenient not to cost you the game, you throw a pitch behind the batter, (so he knows the next one that hits him is not an accident).

Then you get it on! I hate bush league bastards!

[Ed Harley]

Typically you just buzz the guy up and in to let the other team know not to dig in. You generally don't try to drill him unles:

--He's popping off.

--He goes in hard to your infielder or runs over your catcher.

--Their pitcher hit one of your guys after home run.

--He bunts or steals when his team is up by 10 or more runs.

--He jacks one and leisurely strolls around the bases like he's the cat's meow.

--He jacks one and starts pointing at the pitcher with his right hand while grabbing his cup with his left hand.

[Shocker85]

I think you send your 1B coach out to argue, but instead, he stops at the mound and just givees the pitcher a great big slobbery kiss. Cuts that shiite right out.

--'85.

[Hovpen]

I think you send your 1B coach out to argue, but instead, he stops at the mound and just givees the pitcher a great big slobbery kiss. Cuts that shiite right out.

--'85.

WstateU

^^^^^^^ I want to see what u come up with for that one. :yahoo: :clap:

[billybud]

What actually took place after the hit in the back as the first pitch after the home run....

Mike Martin stalks out and talks to the ump...Georgia's coach goes to the mound to talk to his pitcher and the trainers worked on the down hitter.

The batter eventually got up and went to first. The next batter up crushed the first pitch over the left field wall.

"Mike McGee and Jayce Boyd supplied the power, belting two-out, two-run homers in a four-run fifth inning off Georgia starter Alex Wood (0-2) for a 6-0 lead. McGee's third homer of the season, which followed a walk to Devon Travis, snuck just inside the right field foul pole.

Wood's next pitch hit FSU clean-up hitter James Ramsey in the back and brought both coaches from the dugout. Georgia coach Dave Perno made a mound visit and FSU coach Mike Martin held a conversation with home plate umpire Steve Manders.

After the discussions concluded, Boyd sent Wood's next offering over the left field fence into the hedges for a 6-0 cushion.

"Mike hits the home run and Ramsey gets pegged," Boyd said. "You don't know whether it was intentional or not, but it kind of [ticks] you off and you just want to get back at them."

[Ed Harley]

. . . and that is the absolute best response to having the other team drill your guy.



No umpires getting involved, no clearing the bench, no charging the mound, just simply take the pitcher deep.