Yankees, Rays dugouts testy after plunkings of showboating Randy Arozarena
More important than Anthony Volpe’s Rookie of the Year case, it’s clear he is cut out to play in New York
First Jhony Brito and then Albert Abreu plunked Randy Arozarena after the Tampa Bay star homered in the first inning of an eventualArozarena crushed a Brito changeup to center for the Rays’ first run of the game and celebrated during his jog.
The dugouts began yelling at each other — catching coach Tanner Swanson was animated in the Yankees’ bench — and warnings were issued, which angered Rays manager Kevin Cash. “Warn the first time, and if it happens again,” said Cash, trailing off. The Rays manager said Barksdale told him half the crew did not feel the first hit-by-pitch was intentional and, “I said, ‘I didn’t give a s–t what half the crew said.’ ”
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