After giving up three straight home runs to the Tiger Saturday, Orioles starting pitcher Jason Hammel hit Matt Tuiasosopo with a pitch, but stressed after the game that it was not intentional.
"I'm not going to make a big deal of it. I hit him with a slider," Hammel said. "Zero intent there to hit him. Obviously I give up three home runs, but I'm not the guy that answers getting hit around with hitting somebody. That's bush league if you ask me. It was a mistake. A slider that got away."
After the game, crew chief Jerry Layne admitted that he felt he had to toss Hammel given the circumstances.
"In this particular situation, everything's kind of played into what this looks like," he said. "They claim there was no intent. Three home runs and a guy gets hit, you're an umpire, what do you do?"
Tigers manager Jim Leyland believed Hammel's side of the story.
"In my heart, I do not think he was throwing at him," Leyland said.