The Royals react to Jonathan India getting hit in the head by a pitch in the ninth inning on Sunday.
“My view of it was, I watched him get hit in the (expletive) face,” Pasquantino said. “And I’m still kind of collecting my thoughts on it. But (Clase) threw a pitch that he doesn’t ever throw, the pitch before which was a four-seam fastball. It was his first one of the year. Then, the next pitch, you are trying to come back up and in with the next pitch.”
Pasquantino understood the analytics behind the pitch sequence and made it clear that he didn’t feel there was any intent behind Clase’s plunking of India.