Chicago Cubs star wishes he had confronted Dodgers catcher

The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers rivalry is starting to heat up. With the Dodgers being the clear favorite in the National League and to win it all, the Cubs are aspiring to be that still.

It started with Pete Crow-Armstrong’s comments about Dodgers’ fans. And now, an on-field incident is igniting things a little bit.

During a game over the weekend in Los Angeles, catcher Dalton Rushing recovered a wild pitch from Roki Sasaki, but wasn’t able to get the ball to second fast enough as Miguel Amaya was ruled safe.

Then, a replay from the broadcast showed Rushing mouthing what appeared to be the words “fat f—,” which drew a look from Nico Hoerner. But that’s as far as it went.

Now, Hoerner is regretting that and knows he should have confronted him more directly.

“Yeah,” Hoerner replied. “I wish that I had confronted him a little more directly, to be honest. I was pretty taken aback. It was just kind of a strange thing to experience, so yeah, I felt a little weird about that. […] I’m not saying I should’ve tackled the guy or anything, but still. At the end of the day, you just wanna have your teammates’ backs.”

This isn’t the first time Dalton Rushing has been involved in something