Not that there was much doubt in the mind of anyone but Nyjer Morgan, but Ricky Nolasco made it pretty clear today that he didn’t intend to hit Morgan with a pitch earlier this week:
I don’t know what to tell Nyjer. I’m not trying to hit him. What’s happened last year is squashed. If I wanted to hit him, I’d hit him with the first pitch. And why am I going to hit somebody in my first start, trying to catch-up off an injury, on an 0-2 count to lead off the game? I don’t know what else to tell him for him to think differently. I don’t know. I can just tell you, “No, I did not try to hit him.”
I’m not sure how Nolasco actually said it, but I read “I don’t know what to tell Nyjer” in an exasperated tone, which is how a lot of people are increasingly feeling about Morgan on and off the field since around the middle of last season.
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- Old Gator - Mar 18, 2011 at 5:28 PM
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Nolasco can afford to be generous with his exasperation. He hit another batter on the head in that game and generally exhibited as much ability to find the plate as a tourist driving in Paris for the first time looking for a small hotel in the 14th Arondissment without a dashboard GPS. Or maybe he just shares a general sense of relief with the rest of the Feesh that they finally won a game yesterday and Scrooge McLoria had nothing to kvetch about for a change.
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- WhenMattStairsIsKing - Mar 18, 2011 at 5:48 PM
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Nyjer’s one more idiot baseball doesn’t need.
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- Utley's Hair - Mar 18, 2011 at 5:55 PM
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My question is this: why DIDN’T he hit him with the first pitch? He’d get on first, and be thrown out trying to steal, therby keeping Nolasco’s pitch count down. Duh.
