on may 13, 2007, while the giants were routing the colorado rockies 15-1, in the 8th inning, kline gave up a single to yorvit torrealba. torrealba stole second, meaningless to the giants, and scored on a base hit for the rockies' second run. kline told the newspapers he was angry at torrealba for stealing a base in a 15-1 game, saying "you know what? i'm a dumb hick, and i forget a lot of things, but i'm not gonna forget that." torrealba responded by saying "what's he gonna do? hit me with an 84 mph fastball?" the next time kline faced the rockies, on may 26, 2007, torrealba was hit on the first pitch by kline with an 88 mph fastball. as torrealba walked to first, he said something angrily to kline, and the benches cleared. the two had to be restrained by teammates and the umpires while they struggled to fight each other.