Now, nobody loves a good ol' fashioned baseball fight like yours truly. Nothing like a dust-up to inject some life into a game. However, there's such a thing as too much. A five or ten-minute brawl? Sure, that's great. But one that takes more than 50 minutes to break up and sort out? That just seems...excessive.
But that's exactly what happened in Modesto, CA on Saturday as the Class-A California League Modesto Nuts (please, no jokes...OK, feel free to make jokes) threw down with the Stockon Ports (not named after the desert wine, unfortunately) for almost an hour of haymakers, body blows and lots of guys rolling around in the grass with each other. And it wasn't just your usual baseball fight, usually consisting of a couple of guys flailing their arms like elementary school girls in what could very loosely be called "punching" before everyone spills out and proceeds to hug each other for a few minutes. No, this was a full scale, Pier 6 brawl. Ask one of the Ports' relievers, who broke bones in his face after eating some punches and will likely miss the rest of the year.
The best part of all of this? It happened during the one inning per game that the Nuts designated as $1 beer inning. So (factoring in the rest of the inning) for more than an hour, you could get $1 beers from the concession stands. Who says nothing ever comes from violence!
No word on if the 7th Inning Stretch was renamed the 7th Inning Puke on Your Neighbor.
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