SAN DIEGO (AP) a' Zack Greinke's message sailed up and into Carlos Quentin's upper left arm, and it was on. Only a little private history was at play, as were regulations that are not in virtually any rule book. Today the Dodgers will undoubtedly be without their $147 million pitcher for many days and Quentin is expected to be stopped by Major League Baseball, partly because of baseball culture and its fluffy, silent recommendations on only when and how it's OK to bean somebody. After Quentin got hit, the San Diego Padres' slugger got a couple of steps onto the grass. When Greinke, La ' award offseason signing, appeared to say some thing, Quentin threw his bat aside and rushed the mound. The 6-foot-2, 195-pound Greinke dropped his glove and both participants lowered their shoulders. The 6-2, 240-pound Quentin a who as a school senior was called his league's defensive player of the year being an external linebacker a' slammed in to the pitcher. Quentin and Greinke ended up at the bottom of an enormous scrum as participants from both sides ran onto the field and got in. Greinke took the brunt of the blow, breaking his left collarbone and inciting a fight that did not actually end when the game was over. "It is really a man's game on the field," Quentin said. "Thoughts aren't present when things such as this happen." Quentin said later that finding plunked by pitches by Greinke throughout the 2008 and 2009 seasons was reason enough to charge the mound when it happened again. If Greinke hadn't said anything, "There is a opportunity I really do not" rush the pile, Quentin said. "Like I said, there is a history there, that will be the reason why I reacted like I did. Who knows what are the results if he doesn't say anything or if he movements that it was not intentional?" While begging for Kansas City against the Chicago White Sox on July 18, 2008, Greinke hit Quentin with a message near the left arm, filling the bases. Then on April 8, 2009, Greinke struck Quentin between your shoulders in the last inning after putting one high and small during Quentin's previous at-bat. Quentin got about a move toward the mound then, before plate umpire Bill Hohn jumped in front of him. At its core, Thursday's brawl was about baseball's nice decorum. The sport naturally has a tension between pitchers and batters over balls cast over the inside of the plate, and often that flares into disagreement over who "owns" the inside half. Even though Greinke only missed his location on the pitch that hit Quentin, the slugger obviously felt there is intent to hit him. The Dodgers were vehement that Greinke wouldn't put a on base leading off an in a one-run game. Greinke's gestures momentarily appeared like he regretted that he hit Quentin. But the fact he put his glove down and said something possibly indicated that he thought he'd the directly to the within the plate. Quentin's speeding the mound was getting baseball process to the serious, whereas in many other instances, the mixture may touch and yap while being escorted toward first base by the umpire and the catcher. Quentin was hit by a frequency above the right hand by Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario in Tuesday's line opener and had to keep the overall game. He lay out Wednesday night's game. The Dodgers weren't getting Quentin's reason. So much so that Matt Kemp, among four players ejected after the brawl, confronted Quentin while they left Petco Park following LA's 3-2 win. Large Padres lefty Clayton Richard arrived between your two, and police and security moved into break it down. A few Dodgers said Quentin should have known by the situation that Greinke's message did not feature a objective. "I got emotional since first off, we ought to not really have been around in that situation," Kemp said in the club before his conflict with Quentin. "People with great soccer IQs know that when you have a lead in the sixth inning and it's a count, Greinke's not going to reach you on purpose. "I think Carlos Quentin visited Stanford? Something such as that. Yes. I noticed there is smart people at Stanford. That wasn't too smart," Kemp said. Several Dodgers described how Quentin crowds the plate. Director Don Mattingly named Quentin "a man that basically dives into the plate." Mattingly was livid and Kemp was not far behind. "People were saying in the pile, they have got history," Kemp said. "Come on men, history? I mean, Greinke's attempting to win games. He is perhaps not trying to hit anyone purposely. If you look at the movie, if you look at where Quentin really stands on the plate, he provides pitcher no space to even come inside. Great pitchers have to come inside. Sometimes they miss their areas. Greinke missed his spot immediately. That's when he struck Carlos Quentin. No big deal. Go on it just like a man and walk down seriously to first base. But he had to charge the mound. Now one of our most useful pitchers is harm for no reason." Mattingly included that Quentin showed "zero knowledge of the game." "He shouldn't play a casino game until Greinke can pitch. If he represents before Greinke pitches, something's wrong," the Dodgers boss said. "He caused everything. Nothing happens if he goes to first base." After the groups started returning to the dugouts and bullpens following brawl, Jerry Hairston Jr. came running over the field screaming and pointing at some body in the San Diego dugout and had to be restrained. Hairston claimed a Padres person a' whom he'd maybe not name a was making fun of the very fact Greinke had been hurt. Hairston, Quentin, Kemp and Greinke were ejected. Greinke, the 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner, had his left arm in a and a look on his experience as he told his side of the story. "I never hit him on purpose," mentioned Greinke, who still seemed shaken following the game. "I never thought about hitting him deliberately. He always generally seems to think that I am hitting him on purpose, but that's incorrect. That's all I can really say about it." Greinke was asked if he said something to Quentin ahead of the slugger rushed the mound. "I am not really referring to this. I said what I said for you guys." Asked if there was bad blood involving the clubs, Greinke said: "Now there probably is. I actually do not know if there was beforehand." The teams play another three-game series at Dodger Stadium start Monday evening. Greinke said the injury was "awful. It's silly that some thing may happen like that. I'm disappointed." Quentin has been hit by pitches 116 times in his profession, including an 23 times in 2011 with the White Sox. Greinke has struck 46 batters since his major league debut in 2004. "I have been hit by several pitches," said Quentin, plunked more regularly than every other major league batter considering that the start of 2008. "Some have been intentional, some have not been. For the total amount I've been struck and my hitting style, I am likely to repeat: I have never reacted that way".
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