Escobar missed the following two games against the A's. The idiot writer was then tried to compare a Moustakis slide to Lawrie slide with a picture that disproved his point. There were other biases that I don't need to get into.

It comes down to this: If somebody plays dirty and it results in injuring a player, a retaliation pitch is expected. After injuring Escobar, Lawrie started verba; sparing showing his thuggish side. It would have ended there if he had been a man about it.

The Royals retaliated and paid the price. It's baseball. But it also motivated them to beat the A's two out of three.