You can stare down your home run and pimp walk the bases if you hit a home run on Yasiel Puig's team. And if any pitcher dares to get pissed about it, Puig’s got your back. Just ask Derek Dietrich, who must be the biggest Puig fan in the world right now.
After Dietrich stared down a majestic home run he hit against Pirates starting pitcher Chris Archer, Archer threw behind Dietrich during his next at-bat. Puig wasn’t pleased.
Puig looks like he was fired out of a cannon running from the Reds dugout. He got right into Archer’s face too and started yelling. Well, he got a little confused for a second, then got in Archer’s face when he figured out who he was.
Both men were pulled out of the scrum and Pirates outfielder Melky Cabrera cooled things down with Puig. There was the requisite pushing and pulling from other players and a bunch of people were ejected, including Puig.
Here’s what started the whole thing.
Swagger. Puig must have loved it too. You know he wishes he could have done that. And he’s not letting any pencilneck pitcher retaliate against his teammate for being cool. No. That’s not how Puig rolls. Pitchers better get used to it.
