{"id":281279,"date":"2026-04-23T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281279\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:58:11","slug":"dodgers-dalton-rushing-downplays-incident-with-giants-jung-hoo-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281279\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ Dalton Rushing downplays incident with Giants’ Jung Hoo Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers<\/a> concluded a peaceful if unsuccessful game here Tuesday, and then the waves hit: On social media, catcher Dalton Rushing had become the newest enemy among San Francisco Giants fans.<\/p>\n

In the sixth inning of Tuesday\u2019s game, Rushing tagged out Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> at home plate to end the inning. Lee, who had tried to step around Rushing and then reach behind him to tag the plate, then slid awkwardly and sat up in discomfort.<\/p>\n

Television cameras caught Rushing, who had walked toward the Dodgers\u2019 dugout, looking back toward Lee, shrugging and saying something.<\/p>\n

The Bay Area news site SF Gate said Rushing was \u201ccrudely dismissing the injury with an NSFW phrase,\u201d with the first word a four-letter expletive. Rushing said Wednesday he said nothing disparaging toward Lee.<\/p>\n

Lee left Tuesday\u2019s game at that point, with what the Giants listed as a quadriceps injury, but he was in the Giants\u2019 starting lineup Wednesday. In an indication this might not be a crisis after all, neither Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and Giants manager Tony Vitello was asked about it during their respective pregame interview sessions Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Rushing was not in the Dodgers\u2019 starting lineup Wednesday but is expected to be Thursday, and he said he planned to check in with Lee to ensure he was not seriously hurt. Rushing said he already had checked with Lee\u2019s South Korean countryman, Dodgers infielder Hyeseong Kim.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make sure he was OK. That\u2019s the biggest thing,\u201d Rushing said. \u201cThat\u2019s the only thing that matters. Hopefully, he did not take it the way it was put out. I\u2019ll be sure to say something to him face-to-face (Thursday), making sure he\u2019s OK. There was nothing really directed at him. He\u2019s a great guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rushing said he was unaware Lee was hurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I thought it was just a weird slide,\u201d Rushing said. \u201cAs long as he\u2019s OK and he doesn\u2019t think that I\u2019m coming at him or any of those guys over there, that\u2019s the biggest thing for me. I don\u2019t care what other people put out there or say. I was just trying to play the game, play the game hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rushing said he was not frustrated with Lee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was kind of an awkward slide, and that\u2019s all it was,\u201d Rushing said. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t anything else added to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

If he was not frustrated with Lee, was he frustrated with himself? No, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI play with fire,\u201d Rushing said. \u201cEverybody that has ever played with me, everyone that has watched me play, knows that. Whatever people want to make of it, I hope it\u2019s not negative. I just hope he\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rushing declined to say exactly what the cameras caught him saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used a word, but it was not what was said that was said. I\u2019ll just leave it at that. There was no direction towards him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think some people make something out of nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers concluded a peaceful if unsuccessful game here Tuesday, and then the waves hit: On social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[88967,426,10897,120948,4456,349,72189,48,52,51,21437,120947,47,50,49,120950,4113,120949,2429,68,120946],"class_list":{"0":"post-281279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dalton-rushing","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-home-plate","12":"tag-incident","13":"tag-injury","14":"tag-jung-hoo-lee","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-lee","19":"tag-lineup-wednesday","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","22":"tag-los-angeles-news","23":"tag-san-francisco-giants-fan","24":"tag-sixth-inning","25":"tag-television-camera","26":"tag-thursday","27":"tag-tuesday","28":"tag-unsuccessful-game"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}