LOS ANGELES -- Giants center fielder Aaron Rowand sustained a couple of small fractures near his left cheek and a mild concussion when he was beaned in the fifth inning of Friday night's game by a Vicente Padilla pitch.
Films of Rowand's X-rays, which were taken at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, were to be rushed to San Francisco for further evaluation by Giants doctors. Rowand, 32, was not placed on the 15-day disabled list.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy doubted that Padilla was throwing at Rowand in retaliation, since San Francisco starter Todd Wellemeyer had pitched high and tight to Matt Kemp three innings earlier.
"You're always going to wonder what the intent was," Bochy said. "In that situation, that's not a time when a pitcher is going to hit somebody."
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The rivalry is alive and well.