You’re not going to find any baseball player who enjoys getting hit by a pitch. One, it hurts. And then the adrenaline boost that comes with staring down a 90-plus-mph projectile can easily raise tensions in a ballgame.
That’s especially true when a player feels like he was hit by a pitch on purpose, and during Tuesday’s game between the Braves and Diamondbacks, Ronald Acuña Jr. had every reason to be upset with Humberto Castellanos.
In his third-inning at-bat against Castellanos, Acuña hit an RBI double and was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a triple. On contact, though, Acuña flipped his bat before heading to first.
