CHICAGO – It was hard to miss the sight of Buster Posey glaring at Brandon Belt and snapping at him in the handshake line last Saturday in St. Louis.
It was much easier to miss what happened in the ninth inning Monday at Wrigley Field.
Posey’s apparent frustration with Belt in St. Louis had to do with where the first baseman was playing. Posey wanted Belt to play a little nearer to the bag to keep Cardinals baserunner Stephen Piscotty from getting a bigger lead, but Belt was either inattentive or uncooperative. When Piscotty stole second base, barely beating Posey’s throw … well, to describe the Giants’ Gold Glove catcher as perturbed would be an understatement.