(670 The Score) White Sox right-hander Lance Lynn and third-base coach Joe McEwing got into a heated argument in the dugout during Chicago’s 9-5 win at Detroit on Monday evening, apparently over a defensive shift, but Lynn downplayed the argument with a postgame joke.
“He was trying to get me going,” Lynn told reporters postgame. “He kept telling me that like filet is better than ribeye. I’m more of a ribeye and potatoes guy. He’s a filet and like Caesar salad (guy). I just told him he was wrong, and he went back to coaching third.”
In the bottom of the second with no outs, Lynn appeared to be upset by the White Sox’s defensive shift as Tigers second baseman Kody Clemens singled to right field through a shift with three defenders on the right side. Lynn immediately threw his hand up in disgust after the hit. Clemens’ single almost certainly would’ve been a groundout to the second baseman in a traditionally aligned defense. McEwing is the point man on the White Sox’s defensive shifts.
After the inning, in which the Tigers scored once, Lynn and McEwing had a conversation in the dugout that got progressively more animated. At one point, White Sox instructor Jerry Narron had to help lead McEwing away from Lynn.
Manager Tony La Russa also downplayed the argument postgame.
“He was mad at himself,” La Russa told reporters of Lynn.
“He was mad that he didn’t make the pitch … You want to talk about accountability, (Lynn) is one of the best.”
Returning from knee surgery that he had in early April, Lynn made his season debut Monday, going 4 1/3 innings and allowing three runs, all earned.
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