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St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said he warned the Milwaukee Brewers about signaling from the dugout during Tuesday night’s game, a situation that came to a head when Milwaukee reliever Abner Uribe gestured toward the St. Louis dugout with three WWE-style crotch moves after an inning-ending strikeout in the eighth.
Uribe, speaking through an interpreter, said after the game that he believed Mármol had been making signals that led him to believe they were intended to order Cardinals pitchers to hit Brewers batters with pitches, particularly outfielder Christian Yelich and catcher William Contreras.
Speaking to reporters before Wednesday afternoon’s match between the teams, Mármol initially said he had no reaction to Uribe’s accusations.
“I’d rather not exaggerate anything,” Marmol said. “I think it already has been, to be honest with you.”
When pressed further on the matter, he responded.
“I have no problem telling you the full story, but I think that, like everything these days, it explodes. This is something that happens every day,” Mármol said. “We feel like [the Brewers] “We were being pretty demonstrative in passing signals from the dugout.”
Marmol said that was when he mouthed and pointed toward the Brewers dugout.
“I looked and said, ‘Hey, you have to do it, be smart, you’re going to hurt someone,'” Marble said, pointing to his ribs. “Like, ‘What are we trying to do here?’ “That was it.”
Marmol said there was also an incident involving an unnamed Brewers coach before the game related to the signaling issue. That same coach and Marmol spoke after the game, according to Marmol, who said he had not had any conversations with Brewers manager Pat Murphy, who condemned Uribe’s antics, calling them “unacceptable.”
When asked if the matter was resolved, Marmol said: “I have no reason to think not. Typically, you don’t get that type of demonstrative reaction that generates more questions. That’s just the reality. But we have that type of interaction on a daily basis throughout the league.”
Yelich, speaking in the Brewers clubhouse on Wednesday, described Uribe’s gesture as “a little over the top.”
“Obviously, I don’t think the strikeout celebration is something we should do,” Yelich said. “He’s a guy who always has his teammates’ back. I appreciate his point of view, but I think there’s a different way to handle that situation, and he knows it.”
Yelich also said that “some things happened during the series that I don’t really know why they happened,” but declined to elaborate.
Yelich said the Brewers did not want the issue to distract from their performance on the field. Milwaukee has taken the first two games of the series.
“We’ve all addressed it and we’ll move forward so it doesn’t become a huge distraction,” he said.
Information from The Associated Press.
