Ohtani, Tatis hit again as L.A.-S.D. feud boils over

LOS ANGELES -- Shohei Ohtani took a 100 mph fastball to his close enarthrosis leaf successful the bottommost fractional of Thursday night's ninth inning, marking the eighth clip a batter had been deed successful different tension-filled bid betwixt the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

Anger filled Dodger Stadium, by which constituent a sold-out assemblage had mostly filed out. Players were acceptable to spill retired of the dugout erstwhile more. But Ohtani raised his near manus and vigorously waved teammates disconnected arsenic helium made his locomotion toward archetypal base, clamoring for peace.

The fireworks had already taken place.

A half-inning earlier, Fernando Tatis Jr. took a 93 mph fastball to the right-hand by Dodgers rookie right-hander Jack Little. It marked the 2nd clip successful a span of 3 days that Tatis and Ohtani had been deed by pitches astir instantly aft 1 another. More notably for the Padres, it marked the 5th clip the Dodgers had deed Tatis since the commencement of the 2024 season, including 3 times implicit the past 9 days.

Padres manager Mike Shildt walked toward Tatis and yelled successful the absorption of the opposing dugout. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts ran onto the tract and shoved Shildt earlier being separated. Both bullpens and dugouts emptied, though bid was restored earlier punches were thrown.

By the extremity of the night, 2 managers, 1 seat manager (Brian Esposito) and 1 pitcher (Robert Suarez, whose transportation deed Ohtani) had been ejected. The Padres held connected for a 5-3 victory, and afterward, Padres prima 3rd baseman Manny Machado, a cardinal quality successful this rivalry, said the Dodgers had amended "pray" Tatis is not earnestly injured.

"They request to acceptable a small candle up for Tati tomorrow," Machado said. "Hopefully [the scans] comes backmost negative. That's not a bully spot to get hit. I don't attraction who it is, I don't attraction who's connected the mound."

Tatis wore a bandage connected his close manus aft the crippled and sounded dejected erstwhile asked however helium was feeling.

"Not good," helium said.

Initial X-rays were non-conclusive, Tatis added. A CT scan volition find the grade of his wounded connected Friday.

The Dodgers person deed Tatis a full of six times successful his career. The 28 different teams person combined to deed him 4 times, according to ESPN Research.

"Just cleanable it up," helium said. "I'm present to play baseball."

The Padres and Dodgers played 5 choky National League Division Series contests past autumn -- the Dodgers won the last 2 games portion facing elimination, shutting the Padres retired for 24 consecutive innings -- but did not conscionable this play until June. Thursday's contests marked the seventh clip they had played 1 different successful a span of 11 days. The Dodgers took 2 of 3 from San Diego past week, past 3 of 4 from Dodger Stadium this week -- and each crippled seemed to bring with it immoderate animus.

On Monday night, Dodgers outfielder Andy Pages was plunked successful the near elbow guard, screamed successful the absorption of Dylan Cease, past aboriginal said helium felt helium was deed intentionally, possibly due to the fact that the Padres thought helium was relaying signs from 2nd basal the anterior inning. The pursuing night, Tatis was deed by a Lou Trivino sinker to the precocious backmost successful the apical of the 3rd and Ohtani got deed successful the close limb by a Randy Vasquez fastball successful the bottommost half, triggering Roberts' archetypal ejection of the season. Later, Machado took contented with umpires not ejecting Dodgers reliever Matt Sauer erstwhile helium deed Jose Iglesias successful the near wrist aft warnings had been issued.

Thursday took the emotions of this bid to different level.

Trivino, who besides deed Tatis erstwhile helium led disconnected the crippled from Petco Park connected June 10, struck Bryce Johnson successful the genu successful the seventh inning. Two batters later, Tatis was brushed backmost by different Trivino fastball, prompting Shildt to shriek successful his direction. Tatis getting plunked again 2 innings later, aft Roberts had begun to bare his seat portion trailing 5-0, acceptable everything off.

Shildt said helium wasn't definite if it was intentional. By now, helium said, that's beside the point.

"We got a feline who's getting X-rays close now, is 1 of the champion players successful the game, fortunately connected our team, and this feline has taken shots, OK?" Shildt said. "And earlier this series, and I tin backmost this up with implicit evidence, the way records talk for themselves -- teams that I negociate don't get into altercations similar this due to the fact that teams that I negociate don't propulsion astatine people. But also, teams I negociate don't instrumentality anything.

"And aft a while, I'm not gonna instrumentality it. And I'm not gonna instrumentality it connected behalf of Tati, I'm not gonna instrumentality it connected behalf of the team, intentional oregon unintentional. It's truly that simple. That's however this crippled is played. And if you wanna telephone that aged school, past yeah, we'll play old-school baseball."

Roberts noted that Little, who sparked the benches-clearing incidental erstwhile his transportation deed Tatis, was making his large league debut.

"Obviously," Roberts said, "I deliberation anyone knows determination was nary intent."

"And truthful arsenic [Shildt] comes out, and he's yelling astatine maine and staring maine down, that bothers me," Roberts added. "Because, to beryllium rather frank, that's the past happening I wanted. I'm taking starters retired of the game, trying to get this crippled implicit with and get this kid a mates innings. I took that personal. Because I recognize the game, and I recognize that it doesn't consciousness bully to get hit."

Roberts said believes the Padres intentionally deed Ohtani with a transportation connected Thursday night, echoing the aforesaid sentiments from Tuesday.

"This is simply a right-handed pitcher going cross-court to deed Shohei up and in," Roberts said of the pitch, which came connected a 3-0 count. "That's a hard throw. And I don't cognize however galore left-handed hitters Suarez has deed with the fastball, but intelligibly determination was intent down it."

With the bid over, the Dodgers clasp a 3½-game pb successful the NL West implicit the second-place San Francisco Giants, caller disconnected acquiring Rafael Devers. The Padres trailed by 5 games.

They won't spot the Dodgers again until August.

"We're gonna get aft it for the adjacent 2 months," Shildt said, "and they'll beryllium connected the docket 2 months from now, and we'll beryllium ready."