[sumo] [getting off-topic] Police To Charge Tokitsukaze Oyakata

[Jeanne Hedge]

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>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:10:28 -0400
>From: "Robert Hovestadt" <sherlockiama at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [sumo] [getting off-topic] Police To Charge Tokitsukaze Oyakata  
>To: "Sumo Mailing List" <sumo at webtrek.com>
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>I will agree with most of what you said here.
>Unfortunately I do not agree that there is a problem with a pitcher
>throwing pitches high and tight. Those pitches are meant to
>get the batter to back off the plate they are not meant to hit
>the batter.  The problem I have with MLB is that obvious incidents
>of pitchers throwing at batters are not dealt with immediately.
>I have seen numerous occassions in the last month where
>pitchers have purposely hit batters and all that is given is a
>warning.  

The rules require a warning first, of both pitcher and manager, *if* the umpire feels it's intentional. If they do it (intentionally) again in the game, they get ejected, and usually suspended and fined. If there's been a warning, and another pitcher comes in and does it, ejections etc happen.

Regards,
Jeanne Hedge