September 26, 2007
Video Bleg
Has anyone seen video of Milton Bradley throwing the bat after the strikeout in the fifth on Sunday? I'd like to know if it really looked like he was throwing it at the ump.
I went back and watched the strikeout - he takes strike 3, puts the bat under his left arm, and starts taking his gloves off. The camera cuts to Francis, so I thought it would be a fruitless search, but then they cut back to Bradley, still taking his gloves off with no bat to be seen... until the very last split second, as they zoom out, they show him from the knees up, and the bat is resting against his leg. So he definitely didn't throw it as he struck out - if he did, it was after a lengthy amount of time...
Saw the 4SD (Padres cable home station in SD)feed of Milton's alleged bat toss toward Runge. The angle was from the first base camera and clearly shows the bat behind the first base line heading toward the home dugout. Absolutely no way it would be construed as being flung at the home plate ump. Winters out and out lied.