OAKLAND, Calif. — For however long Mike Fiers and Giancarlo Stanton are in the big leagues, they are going to be linked because the right-handed pitcher fractured Stanton’s jaw and caused dental damage with an errant pitch on Sept. 11, 2014.
Fiers was a Brewer and Stanton a Marlin when that frightening scene occurred. In June the pair had a dust-up when Fiers, then with the Tigers, hit Stanton with a pitch in the left arm.
With Fiers now with the A’s and scheduled to start Wednesday night against the Yankees at the Oakland Coliseum, it’s likely the pair will face each other again.