Players often don’t know who they end up against in these things. Somebody yells, somebody shoves, the next thing fists are flying.
“It’s going so fast you don’t really know what’s going on, who it is or what it is,” said reliever J.P. Howell, who was caught up with Arizona coach Turner Ward. “It could have been my best friend and I wouldn’t have even known it.”
What the Dodgers do know, is who was on the mound each time their player was thrown at. And that would be the same guy who last year continued an older skirmish, throwing twice at Clayton Kershaw, once up and in, and then later actually behind him. He missed both times.
Now comes pitches thrown at the heads of Puig and Greinke.
“It’s from the same guy,” Schumaker said. “You make the call on that.”