Kinda lame bench clearing........
Guess my brain is getting fuzzy after all of this coronavirus idleness: I initially thought it was saying the stands cleared in response, and I was envisioning a robot fight on the field.
Damnit, our allies in Taiwan are having all the fun.
God bless them!
The guy at the plate was hitting .444. I didn’t see a scoreboard and they didn’t mention the score. They mentioned he had hit 17 home runs along with the elevated average. The pitcher was a fast ball pitcher and they said the hitter was a good fast ball hitter. In all three of the pitches called a ball, the catcher set up inside.
In the American majors, after the third pitch and the complaint, that may have a threat to the catcher, there would have been a warning sent to both benches to cut out both the brush back pitches and any retaliation from the hitting team either, now or later. The fourth one could have got the pitcher ejected, and possibly a couple of players for charging the mound.
But depending on the severity of the unsportsmanlike conduct, an umpire may or may not eject a brawl’s participants. Since a bench-clearing brawl by definition involves everyone on both teams, it is exceedingly unlikely that all participants will be ejected, but the player or players responsible for the precipitating event are often ejected. Fines and suspensions generally result and are issued at a later date.
rwood
Well, he throws down his bat, he comes racing up to the mound. Next thing, both benches are cleared, you know? A brouhaha breaks out
Over there they grab swords to fight.
If the benches clear in a stadium, and there is no one there to see it, is it really a bench-clearing brawl?