NEW YORK (AP) — Ian Desmond, Daniel Murphy and the Colorado Rockies were willing to take New York Mets rookie Drew Gagnon at his word.
Sure, the pitch from Gagnon that plunked Desmond square in the back looked bad. Especially because it came immediately after two colossal Colorado homers — one by Murphy against his former team.
But it wasn’t intentional, according to the Mets reliever.
“He said it wasn’t on purpose, so it wasn’t on purpose,” Desmond said after the teams got into a bench-clearing scrum late in Colorado’s testy 5-1 victory Friday night.