San Francisco Giants reliever Shaun Anderson threw another fastball near Mike Trout’s head on Thursday, two days after he threw two fastballs near Trout’s head.
The latest incident drew a warning from the crew and more pointed words from Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon, who previously identified Anderson as “a young man who is not ready to be here.”
“Enough is enough,” Maddon said after Thursday’s 10-5 road loss dropped the Angels’ record to 8-18. “These are the most important leagues. There’s also a level of responsibility here. I do not want to use the word ‘irresponsible’ loosely, but in that situation you knew quite well that it would happen again. And I accuse the boy of aiming everything. “I’m just saying he doesn’t use his fastball well enough to know where it’s going.”
Giants manager Gabe Kapler, who played for Maddon on the Tampa Bay Rays, said Tuesday that Anderson was “a little jumpy” on the mound and that there was no malicious intent behind his fields.
With the Giants holding a six-run lead and Trout up to start the seventh in Thursday’s final, Kapler turned to Anderson again. At that point, Maddon said, “My antennas were on.”
When Anderson’s second pitch, at 96 mph, came too close to Trout’s head again, Maddon became alarmed, and came into a hot exchange with the crew. Two pitches later, Trout rode a move to deep left field that fell a few inches short of a home run and instead went for a three-pointer.
Kapler chose not to talk about the case, saying he did not want to separate Joey Bart’s debut and Brandon Crawford’s 100th career at home.
Anderson, 25, drew 96 innings for the Giants last year, but took Thursday’s game with an average of 7.7 walks per nine innings in 2020. He has less than 50 percent of his four-seam fastballs in the regional zone this season. smiten.
“You just can not allow this to happen,” Maddon said of Anderson throwing up and in Trout. “You can not. You can not. People are so wounded. And again there’s an anomaly moment that will happen in time. I get it. I get it. It happens to everyone. But too often, not right. “Did not like it.”
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