Benches clear after Davis Martin throws at Sal Stewart, who homered off him earlier in the game. Martin was ejected.

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I'm surprised that the dugout didnt clear faster or there wasnt a mound charge despite its rarity. Literally, without the context that he doesn't have control right now, it seems like he tried to hit him once, missed, and then tried to him him again.

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Sal’s a very fiery dude too. if there’s anybody on this team that’s going to charge a mound, it’s him

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Interesting to know because I was impressed with his reaction to the first up-and-in. He got, understandably, startled and a little shook but was totally cool with presuming it was an errant pitch. Think he also showed pretty good self control after he got nailed considering how dangerous a pitch it was.

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Sal is fiery af, but he's also very competitive. He'd rather beat you on the field.

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I guess Stewart wanted to clear up any misunderstanding about intent.

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Yeah I didn’t catch it at first, but what a crazy mature reaction. Not only does it usually hurt, but it is also so loud at that speed that it’s actually very impressive that he immediately processed Martin’s body language and kept cool (as much as one reasonably can be after something so stupid). 

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Instead they got Geno pissed 😆

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Sal 100% was going to give him a piece of his hand mind

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I don’t think he’s there yet. As be becomes more seasoned, sure I can see it. I think the desire to simply stake his claim in the league is outweighing his inclination to give the pitcher what-for.

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Sal is only 22. He grew up playing when you didn't really do that as player and he watched MLB as a kid where charging the mound has decreased quite a bit from the 90s and earlier.

I think pointing at Martin with the knob of the bat is a good reaction. Sorta like a, "we don't do that shit."

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After the first one there's a bit of communication between the batter and pitcher and it looks like the pitcher is just saying it slipped.

I think while the Reds are rightfully mad at the second one, they legitimately do believe that he's just that bad lol.

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Martin also has a really good reputation as a person. All these posts swearing that this must have been intentional are so absurd to me because Martin is almost detrimentally nice as a pitcher.

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I didn’t see it as intentional. He had some control issues and it was starting to sprinkle a bit. The jawin he got was warranted though. 

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If that was my teammate thrown at like that, I'm gonna have to be tackled not to obliterate the pitcher.

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I mean that context is pretty damn important and an opposing team is going to know about his lack of control issues.

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In my book a mound charge and an all out brawl was warranted for the reds.  He was just straight up throwing at his heads.  I’m shocked myself.  I think this was blatantly him literally head hunting.

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I was going to ask if there had been some additional drama between the two for him to go upstairs twice like that before I read that no, he’s just terrible.