Yankees and Royals ratchet up intensity as benches clear after Anthony Volpe’s hard tag
By Ryan Dunleavy,
6 hours ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A hard tag led to some hard feelings in the Yankees-Royals game.
Benches and bullpens cleared Thursday in the bottom of the sixth inning in Game 4 of the ALDS, but no punches were thrown before order was restored after the hard tag at second base applied by Anthony Volpe on Maikel Garcia.
It was the back end of a pretty 3-3-6 double play started by first baseman Jon Berti.
Volpe gave Garcia what looked like an accidental forearm shiver to the neck as he applied the tag, and then circled back to tag Garcia on the chest.
It looked like Garcia understood it as a baseball play, Volpe patted him on the back twice and then it seemed like third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. — who has been at the center of controversy — walked over and started jawing with Garcia.
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