Giants-Dodgers Rivalry Heats Up, Grudges Simmer

0:00It's April 24th. This is California News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. Giants and Dodgers turning up the heat in their classic rivalry, but no benches clear this time. Giants pitcher Logan Webb hid Dodgers catcher Dalton rushing with a pitch right after some trash talk, then rushing slid hard into shortstop Willie. Atomies on a grounder, getting call for interference and handing the Giants a double play. It all kicked off Monday when Giants outfielder, Jung-Hoo Lee, slid awkwardly into homeplay, banged up his quad and got thrown out. Rushing walked away muttering something that social media blew up as fighting words aimed at Lee. Players had mixed takes. Dodgerskipper Dave Roberts called the plunking, probably intentional but old school baseball, while Giants infielder Luis Areyes slammed the slide as, dirty. Lee cleared it up, saying rushing apologized through their interpreter and chalked it up to the game. This marks the second Giants dust up this season, after a benches clearing mess with the

1:01Reds last Thursday, when reliever Eric Miller struck out a, rookie, to end it. They meet again for four games at Dodger Stadium starting May 11th, so Grudges could simmer and spark another chapter in this heated history.