Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Puig Versus kemp

Overshadowing the Los Angeles Dodgers 11-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies last night was a shouting match between Matt Kemp and Yasiel Puig. Evidently Matt Kemp took offense to the fact that Yasiel Puig did not take third base on a single by Adrian Gonzalez when he had the opportunity. Matt Kemp flied out after Gonzalez's hit and it would have scored Puig had he been on third base. The Dodgers were in the middle of their 8 run 6th inning that put the game away. Matt Kemp had hit his 22nd homerun in the 1st inning and he thought Puig should have been more aggressive on the bases. Puig has all of the physical gifts to be a baseball superstar but he does not have a hign baseball IQ and his head is not always in the game. Kemp was using his veteran leadership on the Dodgers to impress upon Puig that this is when the games count and the Dodgers now have 4 game lead on the San Francisco Giants with 12 games to play. Something tells me this is not the first altercation that Puig has had with some of the Dodgers veterans this season.

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