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Pitcher torches ex-Blue Jay over infamous arrest during game

Published Jul 24, 2024  •  Last updated 2 hours ago  •  1 minute read

Colorado Rockies pitcher Cal Quantrill delivers a pitch. Photo by Dustin Bradford /GETTY IMAGES

It won’t go down as baseball’s most “touching” moment, but a Canadian pitcher made it his solo mission to affectively tell another player to beat it on Wednesday.

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It all started when Colorado Rockies pitcher Cal Quantrill became ticked off at Boston Red Sox catcher Reese McGuire about something during the fourth inning of a game at Coors Field in Denver.

Blue Jays fans will know where this is headed.

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A little background, you ask? Fans and non-fans alike might recall that one time in 2020 when McGuire, then a member of the Blue Jays organization, was arrested for indecent exposure after allegedly being caught with his pants down inside his vehicle while parked in a Dollar Tree plaza in Dunedin, Fla., home of the Jays’ spring training complex.

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Quantrill appears to be familiar with the incident, too.

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After McGuire popped up in the fourth inning, Quantrill — the pride of Port Hope, Ont. and son of ex-big-league pitcher Paul Quantrill — headed back toward the Rockies dugout and then, inexplicably, raged at McGuire.

“Go j— off in the f—ing parking lot, you dumb f—,” Quantrill seems to be saying to McGuire, leading to the latter appearing to try to fight the former in response.

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McGuire didn’t have to go this one alone as his teammates immediately stepped in to back him up, as did Quantrill’s Rockies teammates.

Cooler heads prevailed and both teams ultimately returned to their dugouts.

Catcher Jacob Stallings of the Colorado Rockies separates starting pitcher Cal Quantrill of the Rockies and Reese McGuire of the Boston Red Sox during an argument between players during the fourth inning at Coors Field on July 24, 2024 in Denver, Colo. JUSTIN EDMONDS/GETTY IMAGES
Catcher Jacob Stallings of the Colorado Rockies separates starting pitcher Cal Quantrill of the Rockies and Reese McGuire of the Boston Red Sox during an argument between players during the fourth inning at Coors Field on July 24, 2024 in Denver, Colo. JUSTIN EDMONDS/GETTY IMAGES Photo by Justin Edmonds /GETTY IMAGES

McGuire, a 29-year-old veteran from Seattle, has been reminded on more than one occasion of his past discrepancies.

In 2020, the Atlanta Braves organist played Michael Jackson’s Beat It during one of his at-bats.

McGuire eventually pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge in the case and was fined. The Blue Jays cut ties with the catcher shortly after the incident.

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