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Ron Darling shreds Mets coaching staff after David Peterson’s mental blunder: ‘Happens every game’

The Mets have played plenty of bad baseball this season, and Ron Darling sounded tired of watching it from the SNY booth. The 1986 World Series champion pitcher ripped into left-hander David Peterson and what he believed to be a less-than-satisfactory reprimand to potentially come from the Mets coaching staff after the starting pitcher failed to back up a play at the plate in the sixth inning of Tuesday night’s 7-2 loss to the Reds at Citi Field.

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Brewers’ Abner Uribe celebrates with wild ‘suck it’ chop at Cardinals — but manager was ’embarrassed’

Abner Uribe was feeling himself on Tuesday night. His manager was none too pleased. The late-inning reliever whipped out a version of the “suck it” crotch chop — made famous in the 1990s by the D-Generation X faction in WWF — after striking out Cardinals first baseman Alec Burleson to end the top of the eighth in a 6-0 Milwaukee win. After the game, Uribe alleged that Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol signaled in the prior game to hit certain Brewers players.