Pedro Martinez would have drilled Manny Machado. He just would have approached it differently than Matt Barnes did last weekend when his throw went behind Machado's head in the fallout of the spiking that injured Dustin Pedroia.
"I would react the same way except I would try to keep the ball lower. The ribs --the ribs down. Butt cheek. Legs. But ribs," Martinez told the Herald. "I aimed all the time to the ribcage -- boom! And I was a sharpshooter, too. You rarely saw me right over the head. It would be the ribs.”
Barnes was suspended four games after his throw behind Machado.