Dodgers Respond to Padres After Andy Pages’ ‘Big Dog’ Home Run

The Dodgers-Padres budding rivalry just became a lot hotter. The latest installment started when Dylan Cease hit Andy Pages with a pitch. 

Some words were exchanged. Pages accused Cease of intentionally hitting him, and Friars’ manager Mike Shildt was seen yelling, “Who do you think you are?” But the Pages fallout was yet to be over. After the game, Padres’ star Manny Machado had this to say of Pages:

“They got way more superstars over there if we want to hit somebody," Machado said. "They’ve got some big dogs over there we could hit. This game is crazy, right? This rivalry. It’s back and forth. Playing this competition, things get heated. 

"You want to go out there and compete. He’s having a helluva year. He’s going to continue having a helluva year. Rooting for him, but it’s just part of the game.” 

To Machado’s point, the heat was just starting. On Tuesday, the next game after Machado’s comments, both Shohei Ohtani and Fernando Tatis Jr. were hit by pitches. These two are the obvious “Big dogs” from both teams; however, the war of hit batters was overshadowed by Pages’ crushing revenge.