Phillies

Tony La Russa Fined for Game 2 Comments

By Kyle Scott

Published: Oct 4th, 2011 · 1:30 PM EDT

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Good for him. 

Tony La Russa’s bitching about the strike zone on Sunday night got him a “four-figure” fine from Major League baseball, according to a source of STLToday.com:

Major League Baseball's vice-president for on-field operations Joe Torre spoke with La Russa Monday and notified him of the fine, according to a source familiar with the situation. La Russa declined comment Monday regarding any recrimination for his alleging that plate umpire Jerry Meals was employing different strike zones for starting pitchers Chris Carpenter and Cliff Lee during Sunday's Game 2.

Speaking from the team's dugout during the game, La Russa told TBS, "I would add — which could get me in trouble, but I'm going to add anyway — is that we are pitching to two different strike zones."

 

Is it 5 yet? Somewhere. Somewhere it’s 5 o’clock.