Benches clear as Dodgers-Padres rivalry boils over in heated showdown after Fernando Tatis Jr gets drilled

Tensions betwixt the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres reached a boiling constituent during the apical of the ninth inning of the Padres' 5-3 triumph astatine Dodger Stadium connected Thursday. 

Padres prima Fernando Tatis Jr. was batting with 1 retired successful the ninth inning with the Padres up 5-0. 

Dodgers’ alleviation pitcher Jack Little threw a 93-mph fastball that ran successful connected Tatis and deed him successful the hand. It was the 3rd clip Dodgers’ pitchers person deed Tatis successful 7 games this season. 

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San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts outcry astatine each different aft the Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. was deed by a transportation during the ninth inning of a shot crippled connected Thursday, June 19, 2025, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Padres’ manager Mike Shildt was irate that Tatis had been drilled again, and stormed retired of his dugout and began yelling towards the Dodgers’ bench. 

As Shildt came marching crossed the field, Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts raced retired of his dugout, and the 2 managers were look to look for a infinitesimal earlier being pulled distant from each other. Both teams' bullpens and dugouts emptied to articulation the fracas. 

Eventually, bid was restored, and some teams returned to their respective dugouts, but Shildt and Roberts were some ejected from the game. Despite some managers having been tossed, the fireworks were not implicit yet. 

In the bottommost of the ninth inning, the Padres were up 5-2 with 2 outs and a antheral connected 3rd basal with Shohei Ohtani up to bat. 

Padres reliever Robert Suarez fell down 3-0 successful the number to Ohtani and connected the adjacent pitch, Suarez beaned Ohtani with a 100-mph fastball into his close shoulder. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, halfway is deed by a transportation thrown by San Diego Padres alleviation pitcher Robert Suarez, near arsenic catcher Martin Maldonado watches during the ninth inning of a shot crippled Thursday, June 19, 2025, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The Japanese superstar waved his dugout disconnected from storming the tract arsenic helium walked down the archetypal baseline to instrumentality his base. Suarez was ejected for beaming Ohtani with the pitch. 

It was the 2nd clip Ohtani was deed by a transportation successful the series, with some times coming the fractional inning aft the Dodgers deed Tatis with a pitch. 

It was besides the sixth clip Tatis had been deed by the Dodgers successful his career, the astir by immoderate club.

The Padres yet won 5-3, but their interest lies with the results of Tatis’s X-Ray and CT scan. 

"(The Dodgers) gotta commune for (results) to travel backmost antagonistic tomorrow," Padres 3rd baseman Manny Machado said. "They should. Us, too, but they should for sure."

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San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. kneels connected the crushed aft being deed by a transportation during the ninth inning of a shot crippled against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Thursday, June 19, 2025, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Shildt said whether the Dodgers had deed Tatis intentionally oregon not does not matter. 

"Whether it was (intentional) oregon it wasn’t, capable is enough," Shildt said. "We got a feline who’s getting X-rays close now, is 1 of the champion players successful the game. Fortunately, he’s connected our team, and this feline has taken shots, OK?"

Roberts said it bothered him that Shildt had travel retired and started yelling towards him pursuing the hit-by-pitch. 

"I didn’t consciousness bully astir Tatis — large player, bully feline — getting hit," Roberts said. "I didn’t consciousness bully astir it. And truthful arsenic (Shildt) comes out, and he’s yelling astatine maine and staring maine down, that bothers me. Because, to beryllium rather frank, that’s the past happening I wanted."

Roberts besides praised Ohtani for defusing the concern aft helium had been drilled. 

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San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts outcry astatine each different aft Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. was deed by a transportation during the ninth inning of a shot crippled connected Thursday, June 19, 2025, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

"Well, I deliberation helium knew it was intentional," Roberts said. "He wasn’t wounded by it, and helium didn’t privation immoderate much drama, which I respect that a lot."

The Dodgers took 3 of the 4 games successful the bid and person taken 5 of the 7 games that the 2 teams person played frankincense acold this season. 

The adjacent clip the 2 NL West rivals volition look disconnected again is Aug. 15-17 astatine Los Angeles and Aug. 22-24 astatine San Diego.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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