Stubby Clapp

ICYMI, things got weird in St. Louis on Wednesday. A night after hitting Pete Alonso in the head—the second time the Mets’ slugger has been drilled in the dome this year—the Cardinals came back and plunked JD Davis on the foot. Though innocuous on its own, the Mets, who have been hit by 19 pitches this season, the most in the majors by a massive margin, reached their breaking point. Down five in the bottom of the 8th, reliever Yoan Lopez sent one up and in on the Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado. Lopez said it wasn’t intentional. The Mets swore up and down they were still trying make a comeback. But the Cardinals, self-appointed arbiters of baseball ethics, did not care for the taste of their own medicine one bit, and quickly emptied the dugout and bullpen.

Mets manager Buck Showalter couldn’t believe it when he was told Stubby Clapp wasn’t disciplined for his Pete Alonso takedown: ‘Nothing? Really?’

Pete Alonso was not at all happy with the St. Louis Cardinals after the bench-clearing incident during Wednesday’s game. Nolan Arenado was upset after the Mets threw up and in on him in the 8th inning as retaliation for JD Davis being hit in the top of the inning. The benches from both sides cleared, leading to a scuffle between the teams (video here).

The New York Mets have once again been involved in a bench-clearing incident, this time against the St. Louis Cardinals. The first two games of the Mets-Cardinals series featured eight total hit batters, including three Mets hit batters on Tuesday. The situation carried over into Wednesday, when New York’s J.D. Davis was hit by a pitch on the ankle and forced to leave the game.

ST. LOUIS — The enduring image of Wednesday's Cardinals-Mets brawl at Busch Stadium will likely be that of St. Louis first base coach Stubby Clapp taking Mets first baseman Pete Alonso to the ground. The scuffle started after a pitch high and tight to Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado...

Stubby Clapp should be thankful Pete Alonso showed restraint. Alonso was in the thick of the Mets-Cardinals bench-clearing incident, mere hours after he was plunked in the head. Clapp, the Cardinals’ first base coach, was ejected after he threw Alonso to the ground during the mild skirmish. “I got...

When the St. Louis Cardinals added Stubby Clapp to their major league coaching staff before the 2019 season, it was a move made in part out of necessity. The then recently-promoted Mike Shildt needed to backfill his coaching staff, and Clapp, who had just managed the Memphis Redbirds to a Triple-A championship, was deserving of a promotion.

The speculation has already begun on who might replace Mike Shildt as the next manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. The popular internal candidates appear to be Oliver Marmol and Stubby Clapp, per Jon Morosi of the MLB Network. St. Louis usually likes to promote from within, and both Marmol...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Cardinals first base coach, and former Memphis Redbirds manager Stubby Clapp has had Thursday circled on his calendar. "I've actually been thinking about it and talking about it with the umpires at first base for the last couple days," he told Local 24 before Wednesday's series finale in Miami.