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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Giants wasted no time in sending Prince Fielder a message they have wanted to send since last September. On Barry Zito's first pitch to the Brewers first baseman in the team's first meeting of the spring on Thursday, Zito stuck a fastball in Fielder's back.
Fielder, who seemed to be expecting it, picked up the baseball, flipped it back to Zito, and trotted to first base. Umpire Ted Barrett stepped in between Fielder and Zito, but there didn't seem to be any more words going back and forth.
"They gotta do what they gotta do," Fielder told reporters after the game. "But it's not going to take it away. It's chronicled. ... I hit the home run and they gotta hit me. That's what they gotta do."
What home run you ask?
In case you forgot how all this started, it was on Sept. 6, 2009. Fielder hit a walk-off homer to beat the Giants, dealing San Francisco a tough blow to its postseason hopes. In celebration, Fielder jumped on the plate and all of his teammates collapsed around him, like bowling pins.The Giants fumed over the Brewers' showmanship. Brewers manager Ken Macha, an old-school skipper, wasn't too pleased with it either, and he and Giants manager Bruce Bochy talked it over at the Winter Meetings.
So now that he's got a bruise to go with the blast, was it worth it?
"Hell yeah," Fielder said. "That's something I did with me and my teammates. It has nothing to do with them."
"You're damn right it was worth it."
Zito, for his part, insisted the plunking wasn't intentional.
"We were just going fastballs in hard. The ball was running away. ... It's not something that was thought of for months and months," he said.
And if you believe that, there's a Golden Gate Bridge we'd love to sell you.
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