NL鈥檚 top rivalry gets early kick-start down under
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SUSPENSIONS to eight players and a controversial National League West-clinching swimming pool incident last season helped expand a growing rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
But Dodgers manager Don Mattingly says he doesn’t expect any serious animosity to carry over from last year when the teams meet to open the major league season on Saturday and Sunday at the Sydney Cricket Ground. But he couldn’t rule it out either.
The suspensions came after a brawl last June, and the incident was credited with igniting the Dodgers’ run that moved them to the division title. Then when the Dodgers clinched the division crown in Arizona, they upset many Diamondbacks player by celebrating in the Chase Field swimming pool.
“Kirk (Gibson, Diamondbacks manager,) talked about it a bit yesterday,” Mattingly said. “It’s a rivalry when you play somebody 19 times a year in your own division. Those games get heated.
“I don’t feel like there is going to be (problems) .... maybe there is.”
Gibson was more or less conciliatory when asked about the brewing rivalry, preferring to talk about Australia as the location for his 1985 honeymoon “and that worked out pretty good, so I’m hoping this does. We’re ready to go”.
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