Overview
- The Giants’ 3-0 win in Cincinnati on Thursday ended with both teams spilling onto the field after Erik Miller struck out Sal Stewart.
- Umpires ejected Reds reliever Connor Phillips in the eighth inning after he hit Willy Adames with an 0-2 fastball and the crew conferred.
- The bad blood traced to Wednesday’s at-bat when Spencer Steer called a late timeout, J.T. Brubaker made him wait near the pitch-clock limit, and Steer shouted an expletive before singling.
- Following that exchange, Giants pitcher Landen Roupp hit Steer with a first-pitch fastball to the ribs in Steer’s first plate appearance Thursday.
- The Reds posted and then deleted a video of Steer’s outburst with the caption “ttyl,” and no league suspensions or fines were reported by the end of the series.