Donaldson:
Thinks its the easy way out to hit Jose during the last at bat of a series, its 98mph up around the upper torso, as an infielder you know if you get the opportunity you slide hard, not a bad slide by Jose.
He is a young guy, you don't know what you will get out there, Jose surprised on the punch.
This is a tightnit group, we feel like we need to protect our guys, especially when something like that happens, unfortunate incident but we need to turn the page and get ready for the up comming series.
Not sure why I got ejected, I saw several people throwing punches, I didn't throw a punch but everyone was in the pile, hopefully I will get word why I got ejected.
As soon as I saw punches thrown I went out there, I had to protect my guy.
Surprised and it was a 1 run game that they did this, it was very blatant, guy throwing straight 4 seamers and hits him with a pitch, when the warning was given ump should have thrown him out then and there but gave warnings instead.
We have to move past it and continue to go out there and get back to work.
Doesn't matter to Josh about revenge in the playoffs.
We feel very confident in our team to play better baseball.
Anytime punches are thrown you have to protect your guys.