{"id":11592,"date":"2019-06-30T00:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11592"},"modified":"2019-06-30T00:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T04:10:57","slug":"pedro-strop-calls-yasiel-puig-stupid-after-hbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/06\/30\/pedro-strop-calls-yasiel-puig-stupid-after-hbp\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Strop calls Yasiel Puig stupid after HBP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cubs pitcher Pedro Strop and Reds outfielder Yasiel Puig probably won’t be sharing any laughs together tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Puig was hit by Strop on a 3-0 pitch at which time Cubs catcher Wilson Contreas and Anthony Rizzo held him back as he made a few steps towards the mound.<\/p>\n

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“He just reacted like that,” Strop said following the game. “Maybe because it was a 3-0 pitch, maybe it looks weird. I wasn’t commanding my sinker and I didn’t want to leave a cookie 3-0. He’ll swing 3-0 and hit it way out of the park. He just acted stupid.”<\/p>\n

The Cubs went on to win 6-0.<\/p>\n

“I told him, ‘Why are you talking?'” Strop said. “‘You have a chance to do whatever you need to do on the mound. Now you’re just screaming.’<\/p>\n

“It’s not a secret he’s stupid. He’s stupid as f—. I have nothing against him, but he’s stupid. There’s no doubt about it.”<\/p>\n

Reds manager David Bell was tossed from the game in the ninth after Dylan Maples got Jose Peraza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cubs pitcher Pedro Strop and Reds outfielder Yasiel Puig probably won’t be sharing any laughs together tomorrow. Puig was hit by Strop on a 3-0 pitch at which time Cubs catcher Wilson Contreas and Anthony Rizzo held him back as he made a few steps towards the mound. “He just reacted like that,” Strop said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11593,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11592\/revisions\/11593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11592"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}