Baseball Fight! Baseball Fight!
There’s something I enjoy WAY too much about a baseball brawl. The game is such a pastoral, non-contact sport, that it’s unusual. But when tempers boil over, it’s better than a WWE main event.
Wednesday night in Cincinnati, things got very heated between the Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates following a series of inside pitches between the teams. What followed was a five-minute brawl.
MLB.com has a full rundown of everything that led to the incident.
Reds pitcher Amir Garrett was the first into the fray, leaving the mound to charge the Pirates dugout, throwing punches and seemingly taking on the entire team by himself. Soon both benches had cleared. Reds coach David Bell, who had already been ejected for arguing balls and strikes, ran back onto the field to join in the fracas. Yasiel Puig, who had been traded to Cleveland mid-game, was also one of the main participants in the brawl.
Overall, six players and the Reds bench coach were ejected (in addition to earlier ejections of Bell and Reds reliever Jared Hughes). Suspensions and fines are expected from Major League Baseball.
But damn, what a fight!
