Rays stars separated in dugout after screaming match vs A's
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The Tampa Bay Rays are not having a great season, and perhaps the frustrations of not being in postseason position are getting to the players a bit as tempers flared in the dugout on Wednesday night.
Yandy Diaz and Jose Caballero, two of the remaining stars in Tampa Bay after a massive overhaul at the MLB trade deadline, were spotted screaming at each other to the point where they needed to be separated in the dugout during the team’s game against the Oakland Athletics on the road.
The Rays may have won the game, 4-2, but Diaz and Caballero continued to jaw at each other, while their teammates were pushing them farther apart in the dugout.
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Yandy Díaz of the Tampa Bay Rays reacts after hitting a double against the Athletics at the Oakland Coliseum on Aug. 21, 2024, in California. (Brandon Vallance/Getty Images)
Media caught wind of the altercation in the dugout and asked Caballero after the game what happened. He basically pointed to the Rays being 6.5 games back of a wild-card spot with only a month left to play.
"Emotions got the best of us," Caballero said, via the New York Post. "We’re trying to be the best player we can be. We’re competitors. Emotions got us, and we’re just trying to be the best we can be, and things happen and just trying to make plays and try to win games. We’re in a bad stretch, we’re not doing the best, and we wish we would be in a playoff position and maybe that could be one of the things that got us. Just trying to be competitors out there and emotions got us. Play happened, and we got to the dugout and things happened."
Manager Kevin Cash added: "It