Dodgers: Trea Turner Throws Shade at Jarlin Garcia, Giants After On-Field Drama
The Dodgers completed another sweep of the Giants on Thursday, and the main storyline from the game was the injury that forced Clayton Kershaw’s early exit. But the sideshow entertainment came in the sixth inning from Giants pitcher Jarlin Garcia, who apparently thought to himself, “My team is about to get swept by our rivals again to put us 21.5 games out of first place. This seems like the perfect time to taunt them over my strikeout of a guy who has been in the majors for five days.”
Garcia celebrated his strikeout of James Outman by pointing at Mookie Betts in the on-deck circle and doing the Dodgers’ “Wolf of Wall Street” head-pounding celebration.
Jarlin García mocks the Dodgers hit celebration and Mookie Betts tells him to bring it
— Doug McKain (@DMAC_LA) August 4, 2022
The next inning, Trea Turner provided an insurance run by blasting a homer to center field, and the Dodgers bench embraced their home run celebration with a bit more gusto than usual, inspiring a classic deadpan line from Dodgers play-by-play announcer Joe Davis: “Yeah, they’re not gonna do it less now.”
After the game, Turner threw a bit of shade in the direction of Garcia and the Giants:
Trea Turner on Jarlín García doing LA's hit celebration down 4-2: "I think nothing really surprises me anymore but at the time of the game and the score of the game and the inning, it didn't really make a lot of sense to a lot of us. I think. But I guess that's where they're at."
— Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) August 4, 2022
“But I guess that’s where they’re at” is so Trea Turner. He doesn’t say much, but he often has a look on his face like he just thought of something funny and he’s keeping it to himself. This time, he didn’t keep it to himself; instead, he threw out a beautifully condescending zinger that gently pointed out that the Giants have lost as many games in 2022 by August 4 as they did in all of 2021.
Be sure to check out Doug McKain’s masterful breakdown of the entire Jarlin Garcia saga:
Giants pitcher Jarlin García Mocks Mookie Betts and the Dodgers hit celebration, Gabe Kapler loses his mind and gets ejected, breakdown!
Watch: https://t.co/M3WKvCHtQz pic.twitter.com/8YokFqqjaq
— Doug McKain (@DMAC_LA) August 5, 2022
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Forget the Giants. They don’t matter anymore. Move on to the Padres who just went all in by selling the farm. Literally.