A minor-league baseball pitcher trashed San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. on Wednesday night. As it turns out, the pitcher should have probably kept his trash-talk in his Twitter drafts.
Kade McClure, a right-handed pitcher from the San Francisco Giants organization, faced Tatis Jr. in a minor-league game this week. Tatis Jr. is on the heels of a PED suspension that kept the star away from the Padres as they made a run to the NLCS.
Tatis clubbed a monster home run off McClure in one of their face-offs. Darnay Tripp tweeted that McClure “will be telling people for years about the time he gave up an absolute nuke to Fernando Tatis Jr.” That might be the case but, based on McClure’s response, it won’t be anything jovial.
“**cheater hits a homerun on a rehab assignment during a steroid suspension**,” McClure tweeted.
https://twitter.com/kademcc/status/1643826385788731392
Unfortunately for McClure, the sports world pounced on his tweet. Much like Fernando Tatis Jr. jumped all over the pitch he dealt to him, nobody showed any hesitance in ambushing the right-handed hurler.
“Might want to rethink this one,” Keith Law tweeted.
Might want to rethink this one.
— keithlaw (@keithlaw) April 6, 2023
“You got bombed on… stop cryin,” NFL defensive back Tony Jefferson II tweeted.
https://twitter.com/_tonyjefferson/status/1643963939846516736
One of McClure’s peers responded to his tweet. Colorado Rockies pitcher Logan Allen tweeted, “Sometimes it’s better to keep your opinions to yourself.”
Sometimes it’s better to keep your opinions to yourself. 😶
— Logan Allen (@Logan__Allen) April 6, 2023
Throw a better pitch and this won't happen. Dude hit the only strike he saw in a 5 pitch AB, and it was up and in. That's why he's in the Majors. https://t.co/E53SRGZBjL pic.twitter.com/vIMPeFB9os
— John Brophy (@jbrophybaseball) April 6, 2023
https://twitter.com/hgomez27/status/1644051350127525889
You threw a tennis ball up there, my boi. Ray Charles woulda went yard https://t.co/I9o0mp1GP4
— FOST (@GeorgeFoster72) April 6, 2023
Don’t throw a meatball sub and people won’t hit homers https://t.co/G0heFbRylo
— Laza 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 (@LazaBautista) April 6, 2023
Safe to say, McClure is also not backing down.
https://twitter.com/kademcc/status/1643998512458395653
