Carlos Quentin was suspended eight games for charging the mound when hit by a Zack Greinke pitch.  Quentin was suspended for eight games, but why?  The usual punishment when a player charges the mound is three games.

My observations of this incident were that Quentin may have had a reason to unleash an attack on Greinke.  However, Sportscenter spent a minute of their broadcast the morning after on Don Mattingly pouting about how this ‘idiot’ charged his pitcher and should be banned from baseball for it.

It would have been easier to take if Greinke hadn’t said something, thrown his glove on the ground, and invited the confrontation, even charging forward.  Who is the idiot Don? Probably your million dollar free agent pickup who is trying to mend his fractured clavicle from his plush recliner at home.

“There is some history there, you can ask Zack about that”, said Greinke.

I didn’t hear the question asked to Zack.  All I got was Donnie Baseball belly aching about how Quentin doesn’t know the game of baseball and how a pitcher wouldn’t dare hit someone with a full count in a one-run game.

Because Greinke was injured, the punishment given to Quentin was extra severe, and I don’t buy it.  If Greinke doesn’t break his collarbone, it is a three-game suspension. Had he backed off and given his catcher some time to slow Quentin down, it may have never happened.  He is as guilty as Quentin for the melee and I hope that the powers that be have the stones to suspend him for eight games when he comes off of the DL.