This has as much to do with a ballgame as the attack on, and murders of, the UN workers in Afghanistan had to do with the Koran burning in Florida.
Damned Libs always try to blame an outside "something", rather than the perp's own prediliction for, and love of, violence...but the first to scream, "don't blame the victim!"
Having dealt with my share of bullies and criminals, I know for certain that the only thing that actually "provokes" them is their own perception of somebody as a vitim.
Someone is in critical condition because of murderous illegal alien gang members.