A rivalry is brewing in Arlington. After being the asshat and injuring Andrelton Simmons a little bit ago, Carlos Gomez got into it again yesterday, and again with Simmons. That, following a plunking of Mike Trout and as a prelude to throwing behind Simmons' head, was intermixed with the Angels getting in a few shots against Texas batters. Somebody from the MLB front office needs to pick up the phone before anybody gets really hurt. Or before Jered Weaver takes the mound.
But let's not blame that loss yesterday on all that. Nor on the shitty home plate umpiring where the strike zone inexplicably expanded well into the inside of the plate - precisely where batters tend to be standing and precisely how batter tend to get hit.