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April 20, 2022 By Tom Gatto 0

Reds players are angry with the Padres' Luke Voit for what he did at the end o atlanta braves jersey plus size f a hard slide into catcher Tyler S atlanMLB Shoes and Socks ta braves jersey stitched tephenson on Tuesday night. 

Voit pushed Stephenson' Stephen Strasburg Nationals Jerseys s head to the ground after being tagged out. Voit was trying to score from first base on a double by Jurickson Profar in the deion sanders atlanta braves jersey first inning. Stephenson suffered a concussion and had to leave the game. He will be placed on the seven-day injured list, Reds manager David Bell said.

The first part of slide men atlanta braves jersey looked fine, if a littleCarlos Rodon Giants Jerseys aMLB Kids Clothing wkward — Voit even drifted inside the base line to avoid the tag. The contact with the head is what set off Cincinnati.

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Outfie atlanta braves vaughn grissom jersey lder Tommy Pham, who played for the Padres last season (Voit played for the Yankees in 2021), called the play "dirty as f—." (per C. Trent Rosecrans of The Athletic) He also threatened to fight the 6-3, 255-pound Voit at a San Diego gym. Pham goes 6-1 and 223.

Shortstop Kyle Farmer, who made the relay throw to retire Voit and has played in 19 MLB games as a catcher, called the push a "wrestling move."

"I've never really seen someone's hands go to a catcher's head on a slide," he said.

Voit said he "wasn't trying to take (Stephenson) out," per MLB.com's AJ Cassavell, and that he hopes Stephenson is "all right."

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We'll give Stephenson the last word on this:Shohei Ohtani

The Padres won the game 6-2. The teams play again Wednesday at 4:10 p.m. ET (1:10 p.m. PT) at San Diego's Petco Park.