Baseball has its share of action every season. While we see the same things repeatedly through the years, sometimes new things become more prevalent. One such thing this season is hit batters.

Many batters take hit pitches gracefully, holding back the pain, but it isn’t generally this easy. Any ball traveling at such high speeds (90+ MPH) is going to hurt anyone, no matter how well built they are.

This year (2009) there have been a ton of batters hit by pitches, some resulting in injuries, ejections, fines, and the occasional fight/revenge. Most of the time when a batter is hit it is because the pitcher lost control of the pitch but then there is always the reason of taking out the other team’s players or rivalry.

This year, hundreds of batters have been hit by pitches, some more remembered than others such as Scott Rolen getting struck in the head by a pitch, injuring him for more than a couple days. And then there’s the time the pitch was thrown at Dustin Pedroia’s head and he ducked and it missed him, but then the next pitch was placed right below that and beamed him in the side.

Just last week, Manny Ramirez of the Dodgers was struck with a pitch while his team trailed the Brewers 17-4. The game had little meaning as far as the score was concerned, but things were about to heat up.

Exacting revenge, Guillermo Mota of the Dodgers attacked Prince Fielder once he arrived at the plate with a pitch that hit Fielder in the side of the body. While Fielder didn’t react after the incident, once the game had ended, Fielder charged the Dodgers’ dugout, looking for Mota.

Mota has a history of hitting batters at the plate, and actions like this must be reprimanded. Fielder felt the pitch was intentional, and so did fans watching the game.

Based on my knowledge of the situation I agree with what Fielder did and think that by fighting back on some of the intentional ones there would be less players hit by a pitch. Now due to Fielder’s outburst they have nine security guards outside the Dodgers clubhouse.

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