The Rockies and Red Sox don’t have much history between one another — at least nothing that would have been able to spark a brawl in normal circumstances. But Rockies pitcher Cal Quantrill managed to strike a nerve with trash talk directed at the Red Sox’s Reese McGuire on Wednesday.
Lip readers were certain they knew what it was all about.
The incident happened with Colorado up by six runs in the fourth inning. Quantrill induced an inning-ending fly out from McGuire, and the Rockies pitcher was fired up. Quantrill pumped his fists on contact, and McGuire didn’t appreciate the showmanship. Once McGuire said something to Quantrill, the Rockies pitcher had his rebuttal ready to go.
Red Sox-Rockies Drama pic.twitter.com/PFRyX7eiey
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) July 24, 2024
(Warning: NSFW language)
Here’s the video of Cal Quantrill calling out Reese McGuire for the parking lot incident…
pic.twitter.com/sKz3sm8zVb— Boston Strong (@BostonStrong_34) July 24, 2024
Quantrill appeared to say, “You (expletive) in a (expletive) parking lot, you dumb (expletive).” And that immediately drew the reaction from McGuire. This set McGuire off because, well, Quantrill appeared to be bringing up McGuire’s indecent exposure arrest in 2020. McGuire entered a plea of no contest and was ordered to pay a fine for the second-degree misdemeanor in in Florida.
To bring that up as trash talk was diabolical, and fans almost couldn’t believe *that* was what started the incident. Somehow, no punches were thrown, and the teams were separated without much escalation.
This was how Twitter/X reacted
Truly incredible. https://t.co/vJznOMjBv1
— Joshua (@JoshuaHowsam) July 24, 2024
imagine being so bold as to say all that but then running and hiding in the dugout. https://t.co/elfblG8Qw2
— Virginia (@tessiesbestie) July 24, 2024
People don’t forget, Reese. https://t.co/HXGyP8XTEk
— Tom Ruminski (@TomRuminski) July 24, 2024
I can't decide if this means we can still keep making the jokes or if this was too good that it's the exclamation point to end all our jokes https://t.co/e4BrWO2ZU0
— Peter Shepert (@PistolPetestar) July 24, 2024
This is literally the happiest a baseball clip has made me all season. https://t.co/G82UdRvW9s
— Eephus Curve (@eephusasher) July 24, 2024
How do you not throw punches in that situation https://t.co/Y96IheMd2G
— ©️🅿️ (@corey_plasky) July 24, 2024
I'm a big Cal Quantrill guy now. Brilliant. https://t.co/VXNwTkPvUJ
— Jonathan Von Tobel (@meJVT) July 24, 2024
i mean literally what could he even say back at this point? literally a thing he did lol https://t.co/Fqs51Q42gx
— Fight Mass (@FightMass) July 24, 2024
The truth hits the hardest, apparently.
