Often a fight between 2 baseball teams is just a lot of 'dancing', but that wasn't the case last night at a game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium...towards the end of this video you'll see the Toronto pitcher has a sizable lump on his forehead...
The Yankee manager, Joe Girardi, is in the middle of it all, apparently trying to split it all up; he ended up with a black eye and a cut face for his troubles. Can you imagine Sir Alex Ferguson jumping in when trouble brews on the football pitch!?
The 'benches clearing' incident is actually pretty healthy for a club if no-one gets hurt; it shows the guys that the team will stand up for one other and 'have their backs', promoting a sense of unity and good team spirit as the Yankees head towards the Play-offs and hopefully another World Series Championship...
This all started because 2 Toronto hitters had been hit earlier in the game by Yankee pitchers...apparently accidentally. However, the Toronto team obviously didn't believe they were accidental, as this Toronto pitcher throws the ball behind the Yankee hitter (Jorge Posada) as a warning; eventually all hell breaks loose! The Yankees lost the game, but won the fight...judging by the lump on the head of the guy that started it!
It's a minute or so into the video before things heat up, so watch and learn how baseball is played...but it's not a good example for your kids in Little League...
Interesting I'll warrant you... but I think one of your local teams was on the end some equally "entertaining" feedback from the opposition, incidentally one of their ex-players... DAG.
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