Eduardo Rodriguez was on the mound for the Red Sox Saturday afternoon. In the top of the 5th inning, Lourdes Gurriel grounded a ball to the first baseman Blake Swihart in which he couldn’t control. Swihart acknowledged the fact that he had no shot to get Gurriel at first, so he flipped the ball to his pitcher Rodriguez who has hustling to first base. Gurriel dove into 1st base, and that’s where things got ugly.
Rodriguez unintentionally kicked Gurriel in the back of the head and he stayed down for several minutes, but ended up being okay.