Benches clear in Detroit after V-Mart is hit by pitch

9/24/14: Victor Martinez is hit by a Chris Sale pitch in the 6th, after which the benches clear and the teams exchange words


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[vintagepokeopenings]

This video is very, very interesting for a numbers of reasons…

1. Sale accuses the Tigers of relaying signs from centerfield. This game took place in 2014, which was the first year live game feeds were allowed in the video rooms in the team clubhouses. This would be identical to what the Astros were proven to have been doing in the 2017 season.

2. Two players in this game (Sale and Miggy) came out and defended Houston in wake of the sign stealing scandal. In fact there is a radio interview on YouTube where Chris Sale tells a local Boston radio station that he knows for a fact there were multiple teams stealing signs with video. Could this have been what he was referring to?

[wrhiv]

Matt Shepard is still just as bad in the booth now as he was here

[AndersDuran-bm]

Very weird to hear Matt Shepard announcing while we were competitive. His voice is synonymous with our recent losing years

[genemeh]

V mart would beat the crap out of sale

[sdaftermath]

If someone was out there in center field bleachers stealing signs, well you get what’s coming to you.

[calebleung]

don't blame victor, for one of the best if not the best pitcher in baseball to miss this far inside is very disappointing.

[Godsgreatestwork]

i was at this game and this was the most exciting part of the whole game lol kinda wish they would have started throwing fists

[fredflintstone]

funny assmus crying about VMart possibly getting injured by the pitch. he could've easily moved out of the way, you're not required to lean into an inside pitch

[riog]

These pitchers are lucky they don’t have to bat. 🤕

[treflipeltoro]

Boohoo, Verlander plunked Abreu earlier this year. It's baseball, people get plunked, deal with it. 

[jack]

Do not like that victor is a great player