“Baseballs are bad” – Mets’ Chris Bassitt blasts MLB after three teammates hit by pitches
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New York Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt said that the Major League Baseball (MLB) is taking its players’ safety for granted. He stated this after three of his teammates were hit by pitches during their 3-0 victory over the St Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on Tuesday night.
Cardinals starter Jordan Hicks hit Dominic Smith in the second while first baseman Pete Alonso was hit in the helmet by Kodi Whitley in the eighth inning. Following this, benches and bullpens started to clear and tensions quickly fizzled out. The fiasco didn’t end here as Starling Marte was plunked by Aaron Brooks with the bases loaded in the ninth, leading to the final run.
“It’s extremely annoying to see your teammates constantly get hit, and if you get hit by certain pitches it is what it is, but to get hit in the head the amount that we’re getting hit is unbelievable,” Bassitt said, as quoted by The New York Post.
“MLB doesn’t give a damn about it”
The Ohio native Bassitt further went on to highlight the “too much inconsistency among the baseballs being used this season.” He added that even the league knows about this problem but “don’t give a damn about the same.”
He concluded: “I had some close calls tonight, and I’ve been hit in the face [by a line drive] and I don’t want to do that to anybody ever, but MLB has a very big problem with the baseballs. They’re bad. Everyone in the league knows it. Every pitcher knows it. They’re bad.
“They don’t care. MLB doesn’t give a damn about it. They don’t care. We’ve told them our problems with them, and they don’t care.”
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