While the game in Houston started on a good footing, tensions began to rise with two outs at the end of the sixth inning.
A pitch from Dodger’s reliever Joe Kelly – which didn’t seem to be a fastball – buzzed near Astro’s shortstop Carlos Correa, causing Correa to fall and move the runners into second and third. Correa stared back at the hill. Correa continued to finish the inning and Kelly stuck her tongue out at the Astros shortstop. The two sides exchanged verbal impacts and the benches were cleared. Other words have been exchanged, the television show shows, but it appears that no blows were thrown.
The Dodgers won the game 5-2. The teams will play against each other on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET.
Major League Baseball issued a penalty for the Astros in January after the league said Houston illegally created a system that decrypted and communicated the pitching signs of the opposing teams during its 2017 championship season – the year the Astros hit the Dodgers in defeated the World Series.
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