Showalter chooses not to respond to Bautista's comments
After tempers flared in Tuesday's matchup between the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays, Jose Bautista had some comments about Buck Showalter:
"It's all pretty well planned out and premeditated, and I think they hide behind the way their manager acts and conducts himself on the field. They're going to continue to keep doing that until something comes down from MLB."
When asked Wednesday about Bautista's comments, Showalter decided to take the high road:
"I really don't have [a reaction]," Showalter told The Baltimore Sun. "I really don't pay much attention to those things. We didn't play very well last night. … I try to have a grip on reality. I'm 58. I'm supposed to be able to do that. I always feed off what's important to our players. It's about them and their game.
"Whether it be our players, their players, it's their game — those 18 guys that night and 50 players. You deal with each day as it comes. That's the challenge of a long season. It's something that's very important to a lot of people and there's going to be some emotion involved."
Wednesday's game was just the fifth of 19 matchups between the two teams.
(h/t The Baltimore Sun)
