{"id":74790,"date":"2021-05-23T02:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T02:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=74790"},"modified":"2021-05-23T04:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T04:03:33","slug":"hawk-in-hot-water-over-off-ball-hit-on-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=74790","title":{"rendered":"Hawk in hot water over off-ball hit on Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawthorn defender <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/kyle-hartigan\" title=\"Kyle Hartigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Hartigan<\/a> is in hot water after footage of an off-ball hit on Carlton star Sam Walsh surfaced on social media. <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the dying stages of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/zac-williams-stars-as-carlton-defeats-hawthorn-21-year-mcg-streak-ended\/746e59e4-8eaf-4dd2-aba0-e0f43422c788\" title=\"Carlton&#x27;s 23-point win over the Hawks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlton&#x27;s 23-point win over the Hawks<\/a> as Walsh came up to block teammate Harry McKay&#x27;s defender deep in the forward line.<\/p>\n<p>As Walsh sprinted towards McKay, Hartigan unleashed what appeared to be a right elbow to the face of the Blues star, sending him crashing to the turf, before the siren sounded to confirm Carlton&#x27;s win just seconds later.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b81ebbf0-3705-43b2-91ba-6ecf237a4071\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b81ebbf0-3705-43b2-91ba-6ecf237a4071\" alt=\"Kyle Hartigan hit on Sam Walsh\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hartigan&#x27;s incident is likely to be scrutinised by the AFL&#x27;s Match Review Officer Michael Christian, with an outcome expected on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season with Hawthorn after 113 games for Adelaide, the incident with Walsh is the second time Hartigan has been in hot water.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was hit with a $2000 fine earlier in the season after striking Geelong star Tom Hawkins during a marking contest.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Hawthorn defender Kyle Hartigan is in hot water after footage of an off-ball hit on Carlton star Sam Walsh surfaced on social media. The incident <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=74790\" title=\"Hawk in hot water over off-ball hit on Walsh\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74792,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74790\/revisions\/74792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}