Touch 'Em All: Zach Greinke broke collarbone in brawl

Like your mom used to say, it's all in fun until somebody gets hurt.

Los Angeles and San Diego had an old-fashioned donnybrook Thursday night after Zack Greinke hit Carlos Quentin in the sixth inning of the Dodgers' 3-2 win over the Padres.

After being tackled by San Diego's Carlos Quentin - who was peeved that a pitch had hit him on the arm - Greinke, Los Angeles' $147 million righthander, will need surgery to put a rod in his broken left clavicle, and be out eight weeks. Quentin was suspended eight games Friday.

But, hey, Quentin was only following some unwritten code.

In this case it says you can be hit 115 times in your career - as Quentin has - without charging the mound, but when that 116th plunk comes, watch out.

We think.

"It's a man's game on the field," Quentin said after the game. "Thoughts aren't present when things like this happen." (We're not sure he learned the lesson "real men don't think" when he was at Stanford, but we didn't have the SATs to get near the place, so maybe that was on the curriculum. It's more likely he did the math - Quentin, a former linebacker, is 6-foot-2, 240 pounds, while Greinke is 6-2, 195 - in calculating his response.)

Besides, Quentin reasoned, Greinke had hit him before (it was in 2008 and 2009, but the hurt is still there) . . . and, and, and he said something. (OK, then.)

Jerry Hairston Jr., who started a second scrum by running across the field yelling and pointing at someone in the San Diego dugout he said was making fun of Greinke's pain, was suspended one game.

Matt Kemp, who questioned Quentin's "baseball IQ" and confronted him as the players left Petco Park after the game - causing police, security and 6-5 Padres pitcher Clayton Richard to step in and break it up - was not disciplined. Neither was Greinke.

Spy games. Who cares about what happens on the field, when there's this: An investor who helped launch Anthony Bosch's Biogenesis of America has been trying to sell purported documents from the closed clinic to Major League Baseball and players, several people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press on Friday.

MLB has bought some of the docs, the anonymous people said. MLB suspects the clinic allegedly distributed banned PEDs to players.

MLB's purchase was first reported Thursday by the New York Times, which said Friday that MLB investigators have "what they believe is evidence" that a representative of Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez purchased medical records.

But ESPN reports that investigators have no physical evidence to connect the New York Yankees' star to payments.

Hova in the game. The Major League Baseball Players Association reports that famed rapper and world traveler Jay-Z has applied to become an agent. No truth to the rumor that all negotiations will be in song form and recorded as open letters.

This article contains information from the AP.