You have to love it when the benches clear in MLB baseball. Well, it happened this afternoon when the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays got it going on. It happened in the 2nd inning of the game and resulted in 3 Yankees and 1 Devil Ray being booted from the game.
The action started when Yankee Shelley Duncan slid into Rays second baseman Akinori Iwamura with his spikes up. He was given the boot right away, but not before Devil Ray, Jonny Gomes, came flying out of right field and plowed into Duncan.
That was all it took, the benches of the Yankees and Devil Rays cleared and the players raced onto the field. In the end, after the dust settled, the Yankees also had 3rd base coach Bobby Meacham and hitting coach Kevin Long get ejected. It didn't look like any punches were actually thrown after all. Typical baseball brawl...
That's not like a good fight in the NHL. When the gloves drop and two big guys square off there are usually a few good punches landed. But in an MLB fight, you see the occasional punch and sometimes a good fight, but mostly it always seems like chaos and not a big brawl. That is what happened with the Yankees and Devil Rays today.
In the end, the Yankees lost 2-0 and the Devil Rays recorded their 9th win. Dan Wheeler got the win with Gary Glover picking up a save, while Jonathan Albaladejo of the Yankees got their 5th loss.
cheers,
Ed Manning
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