No Apology From Duncan, Peavy

On the night after Dodgers coach Mariano Duncan and San Diego Padres ace Jake Peavy engaged in an on-field shouting match, neither party offered an apology.

After he struck out J.D. Drew to end the first inning on Monday, Peavy was yelling -- at himself, he said -- as he walked toward the Padres dugout. But he whirled and charged toward Duncan, who was headed from the first-base coaching box toward the Dodgers dugout. The two shouted heatedly at each other, but they were quickly separated.

“First off, I did not even know who their first base coach was,” Peavy said Tuesday in San Diego. “His exact words -- quote, verbatim -- were, ‘We’re going to get your cocky ... you stupid.... ‘ That’s word for word what got said to me as I was walking off the field, in his Dominican tone.... That’s just a classless, worthless human being.”

Duncan acknowledged calling Peavy cocky and using an expletive but said he did so in response to hearing Peavy yell at Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal. After Furcal dropped a bunt single to start the first inning, according to Duncan, Peavy shouted, “Swing the bat, you little.... “

Said Duncan: “He should have some respect for the game. He wants to show people up.... I told him to close his mouth and pitch.”

Peavy denied saying anything to Furcal, calling Duncan’s accusation “completely false. That is him trying to give some justification to what he said to me.”

Said Duncan of Peavy: “If he’s that good, why does he have the record he has? He’s 9-14. You see people starting to lose respect for the game. I played 12 years in this game. I always had respect for the game. Young guys, they have one or two good years and start showing off.”

At one point, Duncan said he saw Peavy on the mound, yelling at catcher Mike Piazza.

“He was showing up his own catcher,” Duncan said. “You don’t do that with a Hall of Fame catcher.”

Peavy said he is an emotional pitcher and suspected Duncan might have been trying to rile him up.

“I never say anything close to derogatory about the other team. There’s no way he could have heard me say anything he would have misconstrued,” said Peavy, in his fifth season. “If I was saying derogatory stuff, as long as I’ve been in the league, I would have had some confrontations with some players, because players don’t like to be shown up, and I understand that. That has not happened.”

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If the Cleveland Indians move their spring home from Florida to Arizona, they could prevent the Dodgers from following suit.

The Indians are close to an agreement to move to a proposed two-team complex in the Phoenix suburb of Goodyear, as reported Tuesday by the Arizona Republic and mlb.com. The city is negotiating with other Florida-based teams about joining the Indians, but the Dodgers are not interested, Goodyear Mayor Jim Cavanaugh told The Times.

The Dodgers and Chicago White Sox have explored a two-team complex in Glendale, another Phoenix suburb, with the White Sox hoping the Indians would replace them in Tucson. Cavanaugh said state funding is available for Goodyear or Glendale, but not both.

“They only have money for one,” he said.

Brad Parker, spokesman for Arizona’s Sports and Tourism Authority, did not return a call for comment.

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The Dodgers open the 2007 season at Milwaukee and close the season at Dodger Stadium against the San Francisco Giants. Their home opener is against the Colorado Rockies.

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Times staff writer Ben Bolch contributed to this report.

bill.shaikin@latimes.com