Dodgers Fireballer Brusdar Graterol Continues Getting Under Manny Machado's Skin

Don't consider Manny Machado and Brusdar Graterol to be best friends.

Brusdar Graterol and Manny Machado have a nice, long history of not getting along great on the baseball diamond. It started back in 2020 when Graterol was spotted blowing Manny kisses after Cody Bellinger robbed Fernando Tatis Jr of a home run in the NLDS.

The benches cleared and a meme was born. Since then, a few more tiny moments have popped up along the way but the one on Saturday night seems to have really ruffled the Padre third baseman's feathers.

Manny and Brusdar were facing off in the bottom of the 6th in a tightly contested ball game at the time. Machado, who's had his struggles with the pitch clock implemented this year, thought he was doing his part to disrupt the notoriously quick working Graterol by avoiding making eye contact before the 8 second mark on the countdown. The rule says both the pitcher and batter need to be looking at each other before a pitch can be thrown, and with that, a pitcher cannot come set before the batter looks up at him.

That was Manny's issue. 

Machado felt Graterol had already come set and began complaining to the home plate umpire. On the video, it looked as if Graterol timed it perfectly. 

You be the judge.

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— Mad Choriyama (@MadChoriyama) August 6, 2023

The only judge that matters is the home plate umpire who deemed there was no violation. Machado disagreed and chewed his ear off.

Surprisingly, Manny wasn't ejected from the game despite throwing his bat and helmet and emphatically getting in the umpire's face.

Ultimately, it's just another win for Graterol who recorded his fourth strikeout of Machado in 14 at-bats. Manny is hitting .214 lifetime off Brusdar.