Bucs TV voice, La Russa have exchange over HBPs

PITTSBURGH — D-backs chief baseball officer Tony La Russa entered the Pirates TV booth during Tuesday night’s game to dispute what the broadcasters were saying on the air.

La Russa’s emotions apparently were running high after Pirates reliever Arquimedes Caminero hit both Jean Segura and Nick Ahmed in the head with pitches in the seventh and eighth innings, respectively. In between those two hit by pitches, Pirates third baseman David Freese was hit by an Evan Marshall pitch.

“I never have stood for inaccuracies,” La Russa told The Arizona Republic on Wednesday when asked if he confronted the Pirates broadcasters. “So I corrected the inaccuracies. It’s about taking responsibility. If you’re going to speak untruths then you’re going to get challenged, and you should be responsible for what you say. I am. I reacted.”

After reading that story, Pirates broadcaster Greg Brown gave his side of the story during the fourth inning of Thursday’s broadcast.

Brown said La Russa entered the booth as the broadcast was coming back from break following the bottom of the seventh, the half inning in which Freese was hit. La Russa took issue with comments made by Brown, right after Freese was hit, as the cameras showed La Russa sitting in the visiting GM booth.

“My exact words were, ‘There he is as manager of the Cardinals, A’s and White Sox, always believe that you had to, well, essentially retaliate even though Caminero wasn’t trying to hit Segura,'” …

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