{"id":285586,"date":"2026-04-25T14:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:11:43","slug":"giants-call-dodgers-catcher-rushings-slide-dirty-after-webbs-hbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285586\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants call Dodgers catcher Rushing\u2019s slide \u2018dirty\u2019 after Webb\u2019s HBP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dalton Rushing, the Los Angeles Dodgers backup catcher, was hit by a pitch in the series finale on Thursday, two days after internet lip-readers claimed he\u2019d said \u201cf\u2014 \u2019em\u201d after turning around and seeing San Francisco Giants<\/a>\u00a0outfielder\u00a0Jung Hoo Lee<\/a> lying at the plate with an apparent injury.<\/p>\n

Logan Webb<\/a> delivered the pitch in the sixth inning, a 1-0 fastball that followed another inside fastball, two of the just 12 he threw out of 98 pitches overall. Afterward, Webb professed not to know about Rushing and the video and said, \u201cJust a fastball inside.\u201d He was not altogether convincing, and he had hit only one other batter this season in his previous 30 innings pitched entering his start on Thursday.<\/p>\n

After the game, Rushing commented, \u201cIt\u2019s fine. I like getting on base. Whatever works. If it was intentional, I\u2019ll take it. I\u2019ll take what I deserve. I\u2019ve cleared the air with all of that. I\u2019ve made sure Jung Hoo is good and healthy. Whatever happened, happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same inning, after taking his base, Rushing made himself even less liked in the Giants\u2019 clubhouse with a slide into second base that appeared to be directed less at the bag and more into shortstop Willy Adames<\/a> making the turn on the double play. Rushing barreled right into Adames\u2019 midsection, going to the right of the bag to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe umpire said it was a double play because he slid into Willy\u2019s feet, and for me, that\u2019s not good baseball,\u201d second baseman Luis Arraez<\/a> said. \u201cIt\u2019s not clean baseball there. Thank God Willy is good and we made the double play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether he thought it was a dirty play,\u00a0Arraez said, \u201cFor me, it\u2019s dirty. But for me, this is baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rushing defended himself against this latest accusation, saying postgame, \u201cI was taught that in college. That\u2019s kind of the way you go in, especially when you have a speedster like that with (Dodgers infielder) Hyeseong (Kim) behind me. You\u2019re not going four or five feet outside the bag. You stay within the body length and try to break up a double play. Nothing against any of those guys right there.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Rushing told the Chronicle<\/a> and several L.A. reporters that he had not said that about Lee the day before and he had immediately asked about how Lee was doing. Asked what exactly he had said, Rushing was not specific, responding, \u201cI used a word, but it was not what it said.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants haven\u2019t been afraid to send messages from the mound this year. Last week, Landen Roupp<\/a> hit Reds outfielder Spencer Steer with a first-pitch fastball in Cincinnati after Steer had a timeout-related tiff with Giants reliever JT Brubaker the previous night. Roupp denied it was intentional even less believably than did Webb on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers and Giants next meet May 11-14 for a four-game series at Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dalton Rushing, the Los Angeles Dodgers backup catcher, was hit by a pitch in the series finale on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[88967,426,10897,25614,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-285586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-dalton-rushing","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-logan-webb","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-giants","14":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","15":"tag-san-francisco-news","16":"tag-sf","17":"tag-sf-headlines","18":"tag-sf-news","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285586","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=285586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}