Rays’ Maddon miffed over plunking of Navarro

He’s miffed? How do you think Tilly Walker feels!

Rays manager Joe Maddon took issue with the Blue Jays plunking C Dioner Navarro with a pitch in the eighth inning Saturday.

..."I really disagree with what they did,” Maddon said. “We’ll stop trying to score runs when they stop trying.”

Maddon pointed to how the Jays scored four runs in the ninth and got the tying run to the plate. Navarro said afterward that the Rays were just trying to score runs off All-Star Roy Halladay.

“Too many times people have had things passed down through legend or lore in regard to the appropriate or inappropriate things to do,” Maddon said. “Maybe in 1922, you wouldn’t (bunt) because nobody is going to hit a home run. But in the year 2008, people hit home runs. And you could see how they came back. Once again, in baseball, for me, there are moments when people definitely mentally move at a glacier pace, and they really have to get beyond it. That’s what I think about that situation. And it stunk.”