A's Pitcher Defends Himself After SNY Announcers Accuse Him of Showing Up Teammates

he Oakland Athletics and New York Mets split a doubleheader at Citi Field on Wednesday. During the late game A's starting pitcher Joey Estes gave up seven hits and three runs in 5.1 innings of work. During the second inning Mark Vientos doubled home a run on a rocket that third baseman Darrell Hernaiz couldn't handle.

As Jesse Winkler rounded third and headed home Estes threw up his arms in frustration. A few minutes later a frustrated Estes walked past Hernaiz in the dugout. This was not missed by the SNY booth. As the next inning started Estes was called out by Ron Darling for showing up his teammates.

"One thing I could not stand as a player," said Darling. "And I can't stand in the booth. Is one showing up your infielders. Everyone is trying to make a play. There's not one person in the history of the game that tried to make an error. And two when you give up a shot like that and it gets by you should never have that reaction and you should never rebuff him when you're coming into the dugout. You give him a slap on the fanny and say hey great try. We'll get 'em."

Darling and Gary Cohen then continued on for a minute about everything Estes did wrong.


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