Cuban Baseball Brawl = Run!!
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Mar 12 2010, 8:03 AM
The following video is from a Cuban baseball game in late February. This has got to be the most out-of-control baseball game I've seen since the LAPD's Lt. Frank Drebin went undercover as an umpire (as well as famous tenor Enrico Palazzo) during that disastrous Angels/Mariners game that the Queen of England had the unfortunate luck of attending.
These guys are so crazy I'm sure even Milton Bradley himself is blushing right now.
According
to BaseballDeWorld.com,
the brawl took place during a Feb. 28 playoff game between Havana's Industriales
and Sancti Spiritus. The gentleman in blue who's charging the mound,
bat in hand, is Industriales catcher Lisvan Correa. He's been suspended
six months for igniting the whole thing, while the object of his
affections — Sancti pitcher Yasniel Sosa — received a ban for his team's
next three playoff games.
Noted Cuban baseball writer Peter
C. Bjarkman explains
the situation further:
"Brushed back by one
ninth-inning pitch and then hit by a second, [Correa] took matters into
his own hands by charging the mound and attempting to club [Sosa] with
his wooden bat. There have been a number of conflicting accounts
detailing what actually transpired during the bench-clearing brawl that
followed and eventually required police intervention. Later reports out
of Havana suggested that local law officers overreacted and unfairly
roughed up several Industriales ballplayers.
"Other versions had
offending Industriales athletes initially attacking the local police
contingent that was struggling to restore on-field order. Details will
likely never be entirely sorted out, but there remains little dispute
that the unsavory mess was originally precipitated by Correa's
unsportsmanlike bat-waving kamikaze attack."
The following video is from a Cuban baseball game in late February. This has got to be the most out-of-control baseball game I've seen since the LAPD's Lt. Frank Drebin went undercover as an umpire (as well as famous tenor Enrico Palazzo) during that disastrous Angels/Mariners game that the Queen of England had the unfortunate luck of attending.These guys are so crazy I'm sure even Milton Bradley himself is blushing right now.
According to BaseballDeWorld.com, the brawl took place during a Feb. 28 playoff game between Havana's Industriales and Sancti Spiritus. The gentleman in blue who's charging the mound, bat in hand, is Industriales catcher Lisvan Correa. He's been suspended six months for igniting the whole thing, while the object of his affections — Sancti pitcher Yasniel Sosa — received a ban for his team's next three playoff games.
Noted Cuban baseball writer Peter C. Bjarkman explains the situation further:
"Brushed back by one ninth-inning pitch and then hit by a second, [Correa] took matters into his own hands by charging the mound and attempting to club [Sosa] with his wooden bat. There have been a number of conflicting accounts detailing what actually transpired during the bench-clearing brawl that followed and eventually required police intervention. Later reports out of Havana suggested that local law officers overreacted and unfairly roughed up several Industriales ballplayers.
"Other versions had offending Industriales athletes initially attacking the local police contingent that was struggling to restore on-field order. Details will likely never be entirely sorted out, but there remains little dispute that the unsavory mess was originally precipitated by Correa's unsportsmanlike bat-waving kamikaze attack."
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