After the initial shock and outrage of watching José Ureña hit Ronald Acuña Jr with a pitch had faded, it actually got me thinking. What lesson was meant to be drawn from that action?
Was Ureña telling Acuña: “stop being good, you 20-year-old jerk”?
I’m not sure. I think, perhaps, Ureña was just deeply unsettled by the home-run mashing kid who isn’t old enough to drink legally. After all: How dare he?
Then I stopped thinking about it in terms of baseball lessons on the field, and asked myself: what can these in-game lessons teach us about real life?