A Fine of his Own

CC Sabathia retaliated for the Rays throwing one under Austin Romine‘s chin, and lost half a million dollars when he was ejected:

Up from the bench, out of the dugout sprang CC Sabathia, who in his final start of the season was cruising along with no-hit stuff (though he’d allowed a chippy, shift-aided single to Joey Wendle) and was but two innings away from the 155-inning incentive threshold that would automatically earn him a cool $500,000 bonus.

And the big man was hot.

“You throw a ball under a guy’s chin,” he would say later, still fuming, “that’s not a good spot.”

Sabathia threw his inside pitch low. I do not condone throwing at anyone at anytime, but if more pitchers lost $500K when they did, you might see less of it.

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