Anderson: Donaldson tried to rattle him
Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson said Tuesday that Josh Donaldson was clearly trying to rattle him when the New York Yankees third baseman referred to him as “Jackie,” a remark that led to Donaldson being suspended one game by Major League Baseball.
Anderson and White Sox manager Tony La Russa said previously that Donaldson was being racist when he referred to Anderson, who is Black, by the name of the man who broke baseball's color barrier.
Donaldson has appealed the suspension and has denied that he had any racist intent. He said the comment was a reference to a 2019 Sports Illustrated interview in which Anderson said he viewed himself as a modern-day Robinson.
“He was trying to provoke me,” Anderson said Tuesday before the White Sox faced Boston. “But he knew what he
was doing.”
The benches and bullpens emptied after Donaldson's remark.
DODGERS 9, NATIONALS 4 >> Mookie Betts homered twice on a night he was originally supposed to have off, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the
Washington Nationals.
Betts smacked a three-run homer off former Dodgers prospect Josiah Gray and hit solo shot off Victor Arano for his 21st career multi-homer game and his second of the season.
Chris Taylor and Trea
Turner also homered for Los Angeles, which has won nine of 10.
RAYS 6, MARLINS 0 >> Kevin Kiermaier hit Pablo López's first pitch for an inside-the-park home run and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Miami Marlins.
Harold Ramirez and Ji-Man Choi also homered off López, who had given up only two home runs in eight preceding starts.
ROCKIES 2, PIRATES 1 (10 INNINGS) >> Connor Joe singled home Sam Hilliard for the tiebreaking run in the top of the 10th inning and the Colorado Rockies slipped past the Pittsburgh Pirates.
CUBS 11, REDS 4 >> Frank Schwindel homered twice in a game for the first time in his career, Marcus Stroman recovered from a rough start to pitch five effective innings, and the Chicago Cubs rolled past the Cincinnati Reds. Schwindel has three homers in the first two games of Chicago's four-game series at Cincinnati.