This year’s Mariners-Angels series has illustrated three different approaches to revenge.
The first approach comes from Phil Nevin, Mike Trout, Andrew Wantz, and Anthony Rendon.
Approximately 10,000 years ago (6/26/2022), Erik Swanson threw an inside pitch that got away from him. This caused several inexplicable events: Mike Trout threw a temper tantrum and so the next day, Phil Nevin decided to “use an opener,” which really meant bringing in Andrew Wantz to start the game off by intentionally throwing at Julio Rodríguez, Jesse Winker, and seemingly anyone else until umpire John Bacon summoned the fortitude to start ejecting people.