Big baseball fight here. This one involves double-A affiliates of the Mets and Red Sox:
Damn. Thereās a lot to cover here:
Itās hard to tell what happened to the pitcher in the scrum. After the spear, thereās a jumble of bodies and heās sort of caught underneath, so unclear whether heās hurting from getting punched in the face or from being squashed in the pile.
From James Kratch at our sister site, Elite Sports NY:
Binghamton right-hander Marcel Renteria took a right hook from Portland Sea Dogs first baseman Tyreque Reed after Reed was plunked,Ā sparking a melee. Portland is the Double-A affiliate for the Red Sox.
The bases were loaded at the time, so Renteria likely did not hit Reed on purpose. In fact, he seemed to be arguing the pitch didnāt hit Reed. And then something was said that Reed didnāt like, so he veered off the base path while walking to first base, approached Renteria in front of the mound and threw the punch. The benches then cleared.
This Reed guy is listed at 6-1, 250 pounds. Big boy. Renteria is 5ā11ā, 185. So itās not a fair fight, but the quirky thing here is Renteria speared another guy, and not Reed, so maybe he was just going after the closest Sea Dog he could find. Wild.