Saturday was not the first time Javier Báez and Amir Garrett have exchanged words during a baseball game and judging by Javy’s postgame comments it will not be the last. Al wrote up the kerfuffle as follows in the game recap:
Amir Garrett struck out Anthony Rizzo and beat his chest and appeared to say a few words toward the Cubs dugout, which emptied... Javy looked like he wanted a piece of Garrett. Garrett was pretty hot-tempered. No one was hurt or ejected, and the game continued.
And that is certainly all you need to know to understand how this moment impacted the Cubs win on Saturday, but there was so much more involved in this brouhaha.