Astros pitcher Framber Valdez denies intentionally hitting his own catcher after tense moment in loss to Yankees

Houston Astros launcher, Framber Valdez, insists that he did not intentionally cross his own recipient and struck him with an express balloon after an apparent incident on the mound during their 7-1 defeat against New York Yankees on Wednesday evening.

Valdez abandoned a big home in the fifth round of the Daikin Park competition, although the recipient Cesar Salazar was seen in the process of making Valdez leave the mound just before launching the field. Valdez ignored this call and has launched the ground anyway, which led the Voltiger of the Yankees, Trent Grisham, striking it outside the park. The Grand Chelem gave the Yankees an advance of 6-0 at the time.

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Then, during the next stick, Valdez actually pierced Salazar in the chest with a terrain that seemed to move away from the two. Salazar looked amazed, and finally removed his helmet and watched Valdez hard from the marble. Valdez, however, immediately turned his back to Salazar and continued.

Although it looked like an intentional movement in the moment, especially given Valdez’s reaction immediately after the field, Valdez insisted after the match he was accidental. He and Salazar were called in the director’s office after the competition, and Valdez declared that he apologized to Salazar.

“It was a field that I wanted to launch. I called in this field. I couldn’t locate it,” said Valdez via an interpreter, Via. “Then we were just crossed. Afterwards, I told him I was sorry.”

Salazar also supported this, and said that he and Valdez “had a very good relationship”.

“There were a good amount of yankees fans, so it was quite strong after the Grand Colem,” said Salazar. “Maybe my number of steps was not in the right place, so I pressed the bad button, you know.”

Even if it does not look great in the moment, the two players insist that it was only a misunderstanding in a tense situation.

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The Yankees rolled up to six-point victory, thanks to both Grisham’s Grand Chelem and a pair of Jazz Chisholm Jr. jazz circuits which pushed them to 77-61 this season, and brought them 2.5 games from Toronto Blue Jays in the Al East race.

Valdez, in his eighth year with the Astros, holds an MPM of 3.40 and a record of 12-8 in 27 games this season. The Astros, who have lost three of their last four, still have an advance of three games in the Al West race despite the last defeat.