7
2012
Hamels Fined and Suspended For Throwing At Harper
An article by Craig Lerner
Update:
Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Cole Hamels has been fined and suspended five games for intentionally throwing and hitting Washington Nationals rookie outfielder Bryce Harper last night.
Unless appealed, Hamels is scheduled to begin serving his suspension Monday night when the Phillies hosted the New York Mets.
Original Post 12:00 PM
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels admitted last night that he intentionally hit Washington Nationals rookie phenom Bryce Harper with a pitch in the first inning of Sunday night’s game.
“I was trying to hit him,” Hamels said. “I’m not going to deny it.”
As crazy as that may sound to you, his reasoning for it borders on insanity. Hamels told reporters that he plunked Harper in the spirit of old-time baseball and that it was purely a nostalgic gesture.
“That’s something I grew up watching, that’s kind of what happened. So I’m just trying to continue the old baseball because I think some people are kind of getting away from it. It’s just my way of saying welcome to the big leagues.”
Harper simply took it like a man and then made Hamels pay for it stealing home later in the inning. Now that’s what I call old-time baseball.
In case you missed it, here it is courtesy of MLB Advanced Media.
This kid’s amazing. Expect great things.
As for Hamels? A fat fine and a nice suspension should be coming his way…
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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Good job by Hamels teaching Harper some humility. /sarcasm
As big a jerk as Harper was in the minors and as an amateur (and he was), he’s been a solid citizen since being called up. Granted, it has only been 8 games or so, but nothing to warrant a beaning from Hamels, of all people.
With the expertise fdoanl has on jerks, since he is the biggest one here, I guess for once he has a knowledge base from which to speak. odnal and brother hamels. two peas in a pod. Seriously, tell us mr perfect how come everyone you speak of other than sandy alderson of course you consider to be a jerk. I geuss you really are a giant jerk.
should change that headline. He drilled him in the back the “by the book” way to do it). Not a beaning,meaning in the head.
not sure it taught him anything, considering what he did when he got on (and the fact that he mouthed off at Hamels after scoring!)
But, all in good fun. I do, however, get a laugh out of someone on the Phils, with one of the biggest hot dog/whiners around (Vicky), trying to teach old time values.
Maybe its just me, but i have no problem with the fact that hammels beaned harper intentionally. The world is too semsitive nowadays. Pitchers bean batters all the time on purpose. This is all coming from a mets fan too, who despises hammels. Hammelsis just stupid for admitting it, not doing it
But Hamels hit him for no reason. Since coming up to the Show, Harper has stayed away from the showboating garbage. He hasn’t jawed at umps, he hasn’t trash talked other players. He hustles on every play and has kept his mouth shut.
Or did Cole Hamels get appointed minor league police? Because he doesn’t seem to have a problem when other players stand in the batters box to admire home run balls (that one annoys me to no end). Has Hamels done anything like this before?
Yeah I think Harper got the better of him. H e hits him and he repays it by stealing home. Plus then he is dumb enough to admit it which means suspension.
Not sure what the kid has said to get under Hamels skin I mean did he show the Phillies up in some way before Hamels plunking him?
Well, that haircut he’s been rocking is pretty offensive.http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hair-raising-athletes-hair-dos-hair-don-ts-sports-gallery-1.71864
LoL
All I can think of when I see him is the rooster in the Rock-A-Doodle movie.
http://podcast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/rock-a-doodle.jpg
What an idiot Hamels is.
Won’t stop people here from wanting him in Blue & Orange during the offseason.
And if the OLD TIME BASEBALL tradition is to continue then someone shold be throwing at Hamels later on in the game!
Or maybe the best batter on his team just to make a point!
Hamels was hit in his at bat.
The problem here is 2 fold.
1) Harper didn’t do anything to deserve it. He was a tremendous jerk in the minors, but he’s been fairly quiet since making the big club. If Hamels is upset about all the hype or something, then strike the kid out.
2) It was the first inning. It immediately came back to bite him when Harper stole home. Hamels playing fake tough guy almost cost his team big.
Ahhh ok I didn’t see the game obviously!
Yeah, I don’t understand the point of Hamels hitting Harper – especially in the first inning. Something about the Phills trying to knock down the Nats a peg or two and grab back the swagger the Phils apparently think they have exclusive rights to?
Rizzo strikes back today with his comments:
Rizzo said player safety should take precedence and Hamels should miss at least one start.
Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo responded to Cole Hamels’ admission he drilled Bryce Harper on purpose last night in harsh terms, saying MLB should suspend Hamels and calling out Hamels as “fake tough.”
“Players take care of themselves,” Rizzo said after I called him this morning. “I’ve never seen a more classless, gutless chicken [bleep] act in my 30 years in baseball.
“He thinks he’s sending a message to us of being a tough guy. He’s sending the polar opposite message. He says he’s being honest; well, I’m being honest. It was a gutless chicken [bleep] [bleeping] act. That was a fake-tough act. No one has ever accused Cole Hamels of being old school.”
Rizzo was angered more by Hamels boasting about hitting Harper than the act itself. Hamels did not say when or why he decided to drill Harper. Aside from playing well in the series, Harper had not done anything that would seem to incite Hamels.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/post/mike-rizzo-calls-cole-hamels-fake-tough-calls-for-suspension-after-classless-gutless-act/2012/05/07/gIQAZPO07T_blog.html
to be fair, should Zimmerman be suspended too for hitting Hamels in retailiation? Or is that part OK?
I think the sticking point will be Hamels fully admitted it. Zimmerman said he wasn’t intentionally trying to hit Hamels. He knew he would be bunting and he tried to come a little inside and hit him.
So not really sure how MLB will view this.
Hamels has to take a punishment. The league can’t let it go, or it will set a precedant.
even more so for not having any justifiable reason. because they wanted to show the Nats who their daddy was or some such nonsense? don’t think so. Might get some sympathy if say harper was purposely sticking his elbow out to get a HBP, or taking out the SS on borderline dirty slides at 2B (oh wait, that’s Utley), or acting like a whiny baby (oh wait, that’s Vicky).
anyway, no chance the commish lets it slide.
‘Who’s Your Daddy’ – hahahahaha
I’m thinking bare minimum since Hamels admitted it he’ll be suspended along with the fine. Don’t know if it will result in a missed start or not.
Considering what just transpired in the NFL for intentionally trying to hurt a player in a game it was a pretty stupid move to do and then admit you were trying to do it!
And whats worse is the suspension will be appealed by the union whose job it is to protect their membership from unsafe business practices!
Can you believe the NFLPA is actually going to appeal the suspensions of players who were INTENTIONALLY trying to hurt their fellow members?
But rizzo does have a good point. Hamels is about that last guy to qualify as a tough guy, or old school. Certianly not with a nickname like Hollywood!
Now, what would have been real old school is if Harper had charged the mound. Would have been fun to see Hamels running into CF to get away from him!
Hamels is about that last guy to qualify as a tough guy, or old school. Certianly not with a nickname like Hollywood!”
Right, an ACE on the mound and WORLD SERIES + NLCS MVP doesn’t give you any qualifications nowadays… We rather put a C on a guy who has amounted to nothing in his career… that is exactly what’s wrong with baseball today
HEEZ GOT RINGZ!!!!11111oneoneone
Wow, so you took this opportunity to trash David wright and stick up for a Phillies pitcher acting like a d bag.
Interesting.
slappy castillo has a ring. So does Alex Cora I am pretty sure. Maybe we should go get them back?
how many rings you got, other than your pre school cracker jack ring?
I have to give you credit. Every time I think you have reached the pinnacle of stretching a comment to make it about your hatred of DW, you manage to raise the bar to another level.
Congratulations.
No wonder noone visits your desert.. Most of you want someone who has accomplish nothing to be captain yet hamels is a Dbga just for hitting a kid to remind him to be humble… Hamels may be an as*H*** but how many of u’s wouldn’t wanna have him on the team? or had him during our choking season of 2007 and 2008? or maybe had him during the 2006 playoffs run? Please
What has Harper done since being called up to show he is any less humble than anyone else?
“Right, an ACE on the mound and WORLD SERIES + NLCS MVP doesn’t give you any qualifications nowadays”
Yup, the same ace who was on record basically wanting to take his ball & go home in the ’09 WS. At least that guy who’s “never amounted to anything” wouldn’t quit on his team in the Fall Classic.
Sounds like the start of a rivalry. Washington discouraging Phily fans from buying tickets in their park…now this.
Hamels…a douche’s douche!
Yeah but rizzo must have also forgot the part where zimmerman hit hammels back on purpose. All is even. Like i said people are too sensative nowadays. Zimmerman hit hammels before hammels came out with the statement that he did it on purpose. people get beaned every day. However i still agree that him boasting about it is the dumbest thing ever. Dont know why hed do that.
Maybe this is just Rizzos way of making sure it gets enough attention to try and get him suspended long enough to actually miss a start? That would be gamesmanship.
but you are right, guys get hit on purpose all the time (debatable here of course if it was an appropriate time). Just usually the pitchers don’t admit it, even though everyone knows that it happened.
My mind went to Rizzo trying to further a rivalry between the two teams so more Nats fans will come out for those Philly series there. He’s already trying to keep Phillies fans out of that park by not allowing some advanced ticket sales unless you’re credit card has a DC, MD address – which is kind of ridiculous.
He can’t stop the secondary markets though from selling to anyone. So maybe he’s hoping every time the Phils come into town, the Nats fans will fill up the ballpark.
I’m not even sure why a GM would comment on this at all, to tell you the truth.
Rizzo’s a bit of a jerk. This is the guy who went after the umpires as they left the field after a game against the Mets last year.
Amazin donal calls everyone a jerk… Who’s the jerk…Obviosuly, its donal the permanent name caller who goes running to daddy site owner crying whrn he’s smaxked around fro being the a hole he is.
Hahahahahahahaha
This is funny!
So from now on every pitcher who admits throwing at a batter will only be suspended 5 games (1 start) and pay a fine? Not a good precedent. Hammels should have been suspended 11 days that would mean he misses 2 starts. What’s the difference between hitting a batter after both benches are warned and a pitcher admiring to trying to hit a batter in the back with a pitch? Nothing apparently.
even better, he wont miss ANY starts – his start is just pushed back by one day. they’re not going to skip his spot in the rotation.
hamels is a doosh but so is the golden boy hall of famer already harper. so i have no problem with it. at least hamels did it knowING he had to go bat. its when american league guys do this thats pathetic because they know they dont have to hit.
It was a purpose pitch, one to intimidate not so much the rookie player but rather the newly successful Nationals in general – and to tell them to keep their place. There has been bad blood between both teams since spring training beyond just the ticket sales hype. See attached.
http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/165235/Phillies–Nationals-building-up-rivalry.html?isap=1&nav=5024
Maybe the purpose of that public admission was to place that thought into the Nationals heads, especially if it comes down to the stretch drive or post-season.
Too bad Hammels doesn’t know his history. The Cubs tried doing that to the young, upstart Mets by decking Tommie Agee leading off a crucial game in September, 1969. Koozman’s first pitch the next inning smashed Ron Santo right on the wrist . He sent the message back to the Cubs that the Met players would protect their own and not be intimidated (Agee himself came back to hit a two run homer, extend an ordinary single into a double and evaded the tag of Randy Hundley to score the go ahead run).
Unlike 1969, I hope a warning isn’t given the next time these two teams square off. I think Washington should be given the chance to send a message back to Philadelphia. If they don’t, I think Philadelphia might have won the first battle of the psychological war.
well, doesn’t seem like harper (or the Nats) got the message really.
Since Zimmerman plunked Hamels, wouldn’t that be considered their message back?
of course, though I am sure that pitch “just slipped out of his hand”!
and frankly, the steal of home was a message (in the form of a figurative team middle finger!) back at the phils. Well, that and being about 5 games ahead, after taking 2-3 again.
What was the message supposed to be?
“How dare you come into this league with a crazy haircut and get more headlines than me?”
You know the more i think about this the more pissed off it makes me. What if Harper was black or latino?
Would Hammels have admitted have admitted to hitting Harper on purpose then?
I don’t think so.
On so many levels Hammels has really f’ed up things for everyone! What a d@ck! Why couldn’t he just lie like every other pitcher. Hammels feels like he is on his way to one humungous payday I think and could care less about his current teammates. No way Hammels is a Phillie next year with his new contract. Good grief Charlie Brown talk about a selfish player!
Bob Gibson wouldn’t have admitted to a reporter that he plunked on purpose.
Don Drysdale? No way. I can’t think of a pitcher who would except maybe Oil Can Boyd and he is a crazy f’er so he doesn’t count.
Looks like Hammels next start against the Nats is must-see TV. I wonder waht Davey Johnson thinks about Hammels?
Who appointed Hamels as the enforcer of Old School? Admitting that you deliberately threw at and hit another player is an admission of assault. Hamels should sit out 5 starts not 5 games and find himself in court defending against a charge of assault with intent to injure. So much for Old School; make an example and throw the book at him.