“I wasn’t even swinging because I thought there was a chance that that could happen,” Castellanos said. “And it happened. I think he was just pissed off that his numbers got messed up.”
Uceta disagreed.
“It was quite the situation,” he told reporters through a team interpreter. “I was struggling a little bit, so I was just trying to locate my pitch. It was a changeup that kind of got away, and obviously it hit him, and that’s not the intention. I wasn’t trying to do it on purpose.”
That changeup was 96.2 mph — the fastest pitch Uceta has thrown all season.
MLB suspended Edwin Uceta three games and Rays manager Kevin Cash one game for last night’s incident.