Here’s what is happening around baseball on Tuesday June 8, 2010:
o. It appears that even in success, the Mariners just can’t find happiness. In the wake of a three-hit game Monday night, Chone Figgins was still steamed because he had been dropped from No. 2 to No. 9 in Seattle’s batting order. Though M’s manager Don Wakamatsu cited various reasons for the move, including a desire to give Milton Bradley a crack at batting second, Figgins took it personally.
“I mean, I’ve been getting on base,” Figgins said. “I’ve been swinging the bat pretty good. Obviously, it had something to do with me. I think I’ve earned enough respect as a player, because I’m still battling and I’m going good, that I should stay where I was at.”
Asked if he planned to discuss his concerns with Wakamatsu, Figgins had this response:
“It doesn’t matter,” he said. “I don’t have anything to say. The fact is, I come to play. And anybody that’s ever known me or watched me play this game knows no matter whether you hit me first, second or tenth, I’m going to play. If I come off the bench, I’m going to come to play 110 percent. And there is not anybody in this game who can take that away from me.”
o. A 3-year-old girl suffered a fractured skull when she was hit in the head by a line drive off Russell Martin‘s bat during batting practice Monday at Dodger Stadium. She was scheduled to undergo surgery Tuesday morning but the injury was not believed to be life-threatening.
“Accidents happen every day, it’s just … ” Martin told MLB.com. “As soon as it hit, I heard the sound, I knew it wasn’t a good sound. And then I saw him grab her, it didn’t look like she was moving, so that was scary. It’s bad news, but it’s good news at the same time. It could’ve been worse.”
o. MLB apparently didn’t see any shenanigans in the Mets‘ move to place Oliver Perez on the disabled list, accepting the team’s diagnosis of patella tendinitis as legit.
o. Bud Selig got some high-level support for his executive decision not to award Armando Galarraga a perfect game retroactively last week. President Barack Obama backed Selig on not overturning Jim Joyce’s blown call, but gently nudged the commissioner on the issue of expanded instant replay.
“I think that baseball is going to have to take a look at what football and basketball have already decided, which is replay may, in some cases, be appropriate,” Obama told NBC’s Matt Lauer.
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