It has reached the point where the most amazing thing about the tiresome Yasiel Puig are the excuses people in this town will make for him.
And when he shoved and slapped San Francisco Giants catcher Nick Hundley on Tuesday night and was ejected from a game in the middle of a pennant race?
Puig is obviously not the main reason for the Dodgers’ recent struggles. But it’s interesting how, because he is so entertaining, when he causes a team-damaging distraction, everyone else is blamed but him.
Puig was given a huge Dodger Stadium ovation Tuesday even as he was abandoning his dugout in the seventh inning of a one-run game.