Oli Marmol is acting like Yoan Lopez threw an anvil at Nolan Arenado or something.
The Cardinals manager may have gone a wee overboard in defending his star’s reaction to a brushback pitch during the Mets‘ 10-5 getaway game loss Wednesday in St. Louis. While Lopez went up and in on Arenado, his pitch did not appear anywhere close to hitting Arenado’s hit (unlike Pete Alonso’s beaning the other night). And Arenado’s subsequent freakout to spark a bench-clearing incident seemed a bit overzealous.
But not according to Marmol.