Jose Iglesias Loses His Cool In The Dugout, Attacks James McCann [VIDEO]
By Dan Jenkins
@DanTJenkins
Things are not going well for the Detroit Tigers right now. The team elected to sell at the trade deadline, a sign of waving the white flag on the season.
The team entered Friday night's game against the Boston Red Sox with a 3-3 record since the deadline. Tensions boiled over in the sixth inning as the Tigers trailed the last-place Red Sox 7-2.
Shortstop Jose Iglesias and catcher James McCann clearly had a disagreement. It looks like McCann calls out Iglesias for something on the field and Iggy responds by shoving McCann and throwing his glove at him...
Full video: Jose Iglesias, James McCann fight in #Tigers dugout. pic.twitter.com/PhxSAHMKCh
— Alejandro Zúñiga (@ByAZuniga) August 8, 2015
Nick Castellanos restrains Iglesias and outfielder Anthony Gose later chimes in, saying something heated to the shortstop.
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McCann "Jose and I are both rooting for each other and we were both rooting for each other as the game went on"
— Jeff Riger (@riger1984) August 8, 2015
McCann sounds more and more like a Tiger leader. On his scrap with Iglesias: "It's an in-house subject, we got it taken care of."
— Bob Wojnowski (@bobwojnowski) August 8, 2015
Ausmus "I think it shows that they care, they care about winning and losing". Says it's not uncommon.
— Jeff Riger (@riger1984) August 8, 2015
Castellanos "you don't want anything like that to get caught in TV, it's unfortunate that it did but it's over with"
— Jeff Riger (@riger1984) August 8, 2015
Gose on McCann-Iglesias tiff: "I got caught up in something nobody should've been involved in. If anything, it'll bring the team closer."
— Bob Wojnowski (@bobwojnowski) August 8, 2015
According to reports, no players wanted to talk about the specifics of what led up to the incident following the game, calling it "done" and "over."