Dodgers fans have to hand it to Rockies for celly troll after Dalton Rushing’s weird comments

After the Dodgers' 4-3 loss to the Rockies on Saturday, Dalton Rushing — who has earned a lot of early praise for the way he's settled into his role as backup catcher (and one-time DH) this year — stepped in it.

He started that game behind the plate and was calling pitches as Will Klein blew a save behind a five-inning, two-run start for Emmet Sheehan. Rushing contributed a run of his own with a homer in the second.

Klein took over for the sixth, and immediately gave up a double, then a walk, then another double to give the Rockies the lead. Ezequiel Tovar, the second batter up in that inning, hit the first pitch he saw.

Rushing said after the loss, "I think they had a good game plan as an opposing team, and maybe I pitched into their game plan. As far as calling pitches, I'm not 100% sure. I just, I think it's odd some of those hitters that do what they do, they go up there and they were only on the first pitch that was thrown. So it's a little fishy."

There's a lot to unpack there. "It's odd some of those hitters that do what they do" is definitely a (sort of) polite way of saying that the Rockies are usually bad, and Rushing was almost certainly alleging that opposing hitters engaging in some kind of underhandedness.

The Rockies responded on Saturday with a new on-base celebration. They fished.

Rockies respond to Dalton Rushing's lowkey cheating allegations with new on-base celebration

Dave Roberts quickly dismissed Rushing's theory. "I saw some bad breaking balls," he said. "So, I don't think there was anything fishy behind it. I think there were some bad pitches."

Even Dodgers fans have to acknowledge that there was no basis to Rushing's allegations, and he was clearly just astounded that a team as historically bad at the Rockies could beat a team as historically good as the Dodgers. We get that, but the Dodgers aren't infallible. Maybe showing a little humility would've saved him from the fire storm of backlash he got online — and being the butt of a division rival's new celebration.

And Roberts is right: there were some bad pitches. The sweeper that Tovar hit was basically middle-cut. TJ Rumfield's RBI single off of Emmet Sheehan to score Colorado's first run was a slider in the exact same location. Same with another slider Kyle Karros yanked for a sac fly.

It's not that hard to figure out that pitches just weren't being executed. We wouldn't be surprised if Rushing got a bit of a talking-to after those comments, and if he did, he deserved it.

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