Dodgers manager Don Mattingly must exact vengeance — justice? — on Quentin for charging the mound Thursday night and breaking pitcher Zack Greinke’s collarbone. Greinke will be out two months and Quentin has been suspended eight games.

The revenge can come on the base paths — a throw that hits Quentin hard in a vulnerable body part or a spike to the soft tissue of the leg. Or the revenge can come at the plate — a heater to Quentin’s rib cage, and if he breaks a rib, too bad. An eye for an eye, a rib for a collarbone.

I will return to vengeance in a moment. And if you think the theme of vengeance is unseemly, then you don’t know baseball.

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