Tyler Lahti (CC BY-SA 2.0)Jorge Soler Charged the Mound at His Old House
Jorge Soler caught a fastball in the ribs and decided to charge the pitcher who gave him a World Series ring.
Jorge Soler won a World Series ring in Atlanta. He hit a 446-foot bomb in Game 6 — the blow that buried Houston. He was the MVP. This city loved him.
Yesterday he charged the mound against his old teammates. In their old house. Against a pitcher he had already hit .217 off in 23 career at-bats — meaning he was already winning that battle on the scorecard.
Walt Weiss had to tackle him.
Let me be clear about what happened here: Soler got hit in the third, stewed for two innings, and then decided that a 4-2 ballgame in April was the moment to storm the mound at Angel Stadium. The Braves won 7-2. The baseball gods charged Soler's account and settled it immediately.
This is the audacity of a man who got traded for a guy named Griffin Canning and thinks he still has standing.
The Braves have the rubber match today. I'm 78% sure the brawl fires them up to win it. Five career Soler home runs against López in 23 at-bats tells you he can hit this guy — but the Braves just spent 27 outs proving they don't need to worry about him.
Charge the mound at your old house. See what happens. The Braves saw it coming. So did everybody else.
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