The Angels knew that Jose Guillen?s return to Anaheim could be a stressful one. But Guillen turned out to be a lot less trouble than their own manager, Mike Scioscia, who went overboard in a silly game of one-upsmanship with Washington Nationals manager Frank Robinson. As far as inter-league matchups go, Nationals vs. Angels isn?t exactly up there with Yanks-Cards or Dodgers-Twins in terms of historical significance. But it proved to be an intriguing showdown between two division leaders, and it proved to be an embarrassing night for Angels reliever Brendan Donnelly and the normally poised Scioscia. The trouble began when Donnelly took the field in the 7th inning, hoping to protect a 3-1 lead. Before he could even toss a warm-up, Robinson asked the umpires to check Donnelly?s glove for a ?foreign substance?, which proved to be pine tar. Donnelly would later explain that he wasn?t trying to gain an advantage, but merely to get a better grip on the ball, so that it wouldn?t go flying out of his hand and possibly hit someone, like Guillen, in the head. The umpires disagreed, and summarily ejected Donnelly, bringing Scioscia out of the dugout in a rage. He threatened to ?undress? all of Robinson?s pitchers, an unsettling thought under any circumstances, which may explain why Robinson refused to meet Scioscia at home plat the following night to present lineup cards. In any event, with their respective managers looking ready to duke it out, both benches and bullpens emptied in the obligatory show of solidarity. No punches were thrown, though Guillen had to be restrained and wrestled back to his dugout by three teammates, showing Angels fans why he?s been with 7 teams in his 8-year career. The ejection worked out brilliantly for Washington. In a macabre turns of events for the Angels, reliever Scott Shields gave up a game-tying home run to the one man on the field that no one wanted to see succeed: Guillen, who put an off-season?s worth of fury into the swing, and rounded the bases pumped with emotion. The incident should?ve died right there, in the top of the 7th, but Scioscia wasn?t finished. In a childish attempt at revenge, he sent the umps out to inspect Nationals reliever Gary Majewski?s glove. They found something ominous indeed ? loose laces. Watching from the dugout Robinson, once a VP of discipline for major-league baseball, looked ready to bring out the whooping stick. The Nationals wound up winning the game, 6-3, and a grudge match was born. The bottom line is, Donnelly got caught cheating, and Robinson was smart enough to catch it. Whether Guillen passed on pre-game intelligence on Donnelly?s habits, we?ll never know (he denied it later), but there was no reason for Scioscia to turn it into a mano a mano conflict. His beef should?ve been with either the umps or his pitcher, not Robinson. Scioscia later admitted that he knew pine tar was against the rules, but said it was generally used in baseball and did not affect the flight of the ball. While the managers remained angry with each other, the feud didn?t stop there. Jose Guillen referred to his former manager as a ?piece of garbage? after the game. It was hard to tell whether Guillen was talking about the Donnelly incident, or his suspension last September. No one expects much from Guillen in the class department. But it was Scioscia who was, surprisingly, out of control. Robinson was only trying to win a ballgame, by whatever means necessary. Scioscia, apparently, was more concerned with trying to show who was boss.