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Sep
16

Torii Hunter loses $5000 to Hideki Matsui in Triples bet

By Allan

Los Angeles Angels Hideki Matsui hits an RBI triple in Wednesday’s game, and teammate Torii Hunter was not pleased at all.

“I was like, ‘What the …? Ah, hell no,’” Hunter joked afterwards, according to Bill Plunkett of The Orange County Register. “I’m not talking to Matsui anymore.”

Apparently there was a friendly wager between the two.  This is how Plunkett put it:

Hunter (who has no triples of his own this season) had a friendly wager with Matsui that the Japanese slugger with the arthritic knees would get at least one triple this season. The wager was definitely not for any amount of money like, oh, $5,000.

This was Matsui’s first triple since April 28, 2009 with the New York Yankees.

“I saw him running the bases. He was making all kinds of faces, trying to get me,” Hunter said, pantomiming Matsui’s effort. “I didn’t realize it was a triple until I got to the dugout then everybody let me know.”

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