Hot Summer Night: Wild Brawl Clears Benches in Boston as Gregg and Ortiz Go at It
- Posted on July 9, 2011 at 9:46am by
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BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz homered in Boston’s eight-run first inning, then got into a bench-clearing brawl with Baltimore reliever Kevin Gregg as the Red Sox routed the Orioles 10-3 on Friday night.
Ortiz and Gregg exchanged a flurry of punches in the eighth, but neither connected before they were separated as both benches and bullpens emptied for the second time in the inning.
Moments before the fight, Ortiz started toward the mound after taking a second straight pitch inside from Gregg. The benches and bullpens emptied, but nothing developed and Ortiz stepped back into the batter’s box.
Gregg got him to pop out, then shouted something as the Boston slugger started down the first-base line. Plate umpire Mike Estabrook immediately ejected Gregg — and Ortiz quickly changed course, charging toward the mound. Gregg and Ortiz each threw a few haymakers, but the heavyweight bout was swallowed up by the mass of players rushing onto the field.
It took more than 15 minutes to restore order and sort out the ejections. Gregg and Ortiz were tossed, as well as Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Baltimore reliever Jim Johnson.
Estabrook couldn’t quite reach Ortiz in time to stop him from getting to Gregg. The benches and bullpens cleared again as Boston fans cheered “Pa-pi! Pa-pi!”
The Orioles, who allowed 10 or more runs for the fourth time in five games, were flustered after the Red Sox sent 13 batters to the plate in the opening inning and tagged starter Zach Britton for seven earned runs on six hits and two walks. Ortiz hit a three-run shot.
It was Boston’s fourth straight win, and it extended Baltimore’s losing streak to five.
Britton (6-7) didn’t even make it through the inning, getting pulled with two outs after Jacoby Ellsbury blooped an RBI single in his second at-bat.
The outburst of runs was plenty for Josh Beckett (8-3), who allowed three runs on seven hits over five innings. Beckett was having problems with the wet dirt on the mound after a steady rain fell early in the game and he didn’t return for the sixth. Having already lost another starter to the disabled list this week, the Red Sox were not risking Beckett’s health so close to the All-Star break.
The Red Sox said Beckett mildly hyperextended his left knee and removed him for precautionary reasons.
He was already in line for the win after Boston’s huge first inning, then Dustin Pedroia added a run in the sixth with a solo homer that was kept inside Fenway Park only by a sign above the left-field wall. Pedroia knocked one all the way out of the venue on Thursday in Boston’s 10-4 win.
Boston reached 10 runs again Friday on Josh Reddick’s RBI triple in the eighth.
Baltimore finally scored in the fifth on Derek Lee’s solo homer and RBI singles later in the inning from Nick Markakis and Adam Jones.
Brad Bergesen, who relieved Britton in the first, was knocked out of the game when he took a line drive from Ortiz off his pitching arm. The ball bounced hard off Bergesen’s right forearm and rolled quickly to the third base line.
Bergesen chased down the ball and walked back to the mound, but didn’t throw another pitch and headed back to the dugout with a trainer as right-hander Chris Jakubauskas was called in from the bullpen. The Orioles said Bergesen had a bruised right forearm.
It was that kind of night for the Orioles.
Boston already led 1-0 when Ortiz came to bat with two on and hit a shot well into the right-field seats on a 1-0 pitch.
NOTES: Yamaico Navarro, an infielder who played both in left and right field in Triple-A this year, made his major league outfield debut Friday, playing left field. Red Sox manager Terry Francona said he saw Navarro shagging fly balls during spring training and was impressed enough to know he’d be able to do it in the major leagues. … Baltimore OF Luke Scott, placed on the disabled list earlier this week with a right (non-throwing) shoulder strain, had an MRI that showed no extensive damage. Manager Buck Showalter said Scott will receive a cortisone injection Monday and be on target to return from the DL at the end of his 15 days.
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Comments (59)
jessieH
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 5:17pmWith the amount of money these fools make, what do they have to fight about?
Report Post »NC1
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:37amIntentionally getting hit with 90+ mph fast balls.
Report Post »reconmarine
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 4:38pmDavid Ortiz is one of the most happy go lucky, beloved players in baseball. It takes ALOT to set him off.
Report Post »B4B
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:30amThe trolls are in full force on several threads lately.
They’ll use ANY excuse to post RACIST, nonsensical ramblings in a feeble attempt to make it “look like” this site is full of what they consider conservatives to be, but have NO EVIDENCE to support their meme.
So, they simply manufacture it.
Again, TROLL, take your feeble attempts elsewhere.
Report Post »NC1
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:22amRECONMARINE isn’t a troll. He’s right in his statement. As a Red Sox fan I’ve read several articles and seen the actions of Big Papi, it’s definitely out of character for him to get in a fight. Everyone has a breaking point.
Report Post »hcartexas
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 2:54pmFunny… baseball guys cant fight worth a sh**. MMA is the only real sport…. everything else is just foreplay. And to the idiot that posted above… “All men are created equal” is not accurate. All men are created with equal rights, and that is from being equal…. if we could only meet for about 20 seconds I could show you just how unequal you are….
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 2:38pmRock‘Em Sock’Em
Report Post »schillinfl
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 2:30pmOrtiz can’t fight.
Report Post »pennsychica
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 2:27pmMan I’m from Philly! I looooove this stuff!!!! Hockey’s better though… Blood on the ice BABY!!!!!!
Report Post »B4B
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 2:21pmTrooper / TROLL
Report Post »Go Away.
Take your feeble attempt to paint this site as racist with you.
Be gone idiot.
teddrunk
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 1:24pmIt’s baseball. Without the occasional brawl, or the prospect of one, the sport of the 1800′s would be too boring to watch.
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 1:14pmThat was more like a big cat fight!
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 1:06pmWent to a Baseball game and a fight broke out. Typical false advertising.
Report Post »Liberty7
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 12:09pmI gave up watching baseball after their last strike when .220 hitters were averaging $1.2 million dollars per year and didn’t think they were getting paid enough. These guys are just a bunch of overpaid children and aren’t worth what they are getting paid, however, I don’t think the owners deserve most of the money either; there is just too much cash in professional sports. And to use an overused cliche, it is what it is.
On another note, these hitters who get upset about inside pitches are a bunch of cry babies. The pitcher has just as much right to the inside of the plate as they do and it is their duty to push these power hitters off the plate when necessary. High and tight pitches have been part of the game of baseball since its beginnings and nothing is going to change this, no matter how much the hitters complain.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 12:07pmThe ONLY professional sport I really enjoy is womens volleyball.
Report Post »And it is a sport. I think.
Pelling1020
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:01pmI enjoy curling, maybe bowling too.
Report Post »WTFGOV_ENUF
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:52amThey normally do no get enough credit but I think Plate umpire Mike Estabrook ddi an outstanding job. He was the most professional one on the field. Good job Mr. Estabrook. He immediately tossed Gregg and tried to stop the mound charge.
Report Post »crazytalk
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:47amTime to cuff ‘em and hall ’em off the field. Either that or just let ‘em go tell they beat themselves to a bloody pulp. That I’d like to see.
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:16amAmerica‘s game has become america’s shame, these little 250Lb. children playing to a packed house of brain dead american sports fan’s is contributing to the down fall of this country. the out come of any game today depends on who gets the most and best drug’s. These spoiled brats should be out in the streets with tin cup’s begging for a living.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:05amBaseball, the GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY SPORT? Come on guys. There are KIDS there and you are supposed to be ROLE MODELS. Shameful. Is ALL of America going to HELL in HANDBASKET? (as my old granny used to say)
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 9:56pmLordy, Lordy, was this right after the father of a small boy fell out of the top deck to his death trying to grab a baseball? Oh! wrong game. Ice hockey is much better.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:03amOverheard from the bench later afterwords “OH yea I‘d a dun kicked his azzz if all the racist umpires didn’t protect him from my azzz“ ”He wouldn’t be throwin no ball inside if I was a white man!! “
Report Post »B4B
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 2:24pmOneMan….
Report Post »Is this your inept attempt at humor?
Just make something (racist) up and try to pass it of as a quote because you think it’s funny?
You’re an idiot. We don’t need that nonsense here.
MAULEMALL
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 9:06pmdude is funny
Report Post »SafeguardOurLiberty
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:54amI don‘t watch any professional sports since the 70’s. They are paid too much, and they are uneducated. They commit crimes and are really not held accountable for it. If I watch sports at all it is usually college. No more professional sports for me.
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:11am@SafeguardOurLiberty:
Me either, it’s only Hockey for me………and I‘m not ashamed or afraid to say it’s because baseball has been run over by Central American illegals who wouldn‘t be here if they didn’t play cheaper at the minor league level, NFL because now it’s filled with ghettomen who kill people and get away with it, beat their wives, impregnate anything that walks, leave thousands of spawn behind every city they travel to, they shoot their friends at bars, themselves in the leg at bars, dance like Zulu‘s whenever they actually do what they’re way over paid by tens of millions to do, who mostly end up begging for money 5 years out of the league crying their bodies are ravaged and so on.
Based on that you can easily figure out why i despise the NBA since Jordan’s departure from the playing part of his career. Down hill at terminal velocity still eaking by on that era’ s reputation is that ghetto bastion.
And soon these stadiums will all be empty and America will better for it. Sounds corny but until they play again for the love of the game they don’t get my attention or money EVER.
Report Post »HisNameWasRobertPaulson
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 6:48pmYou guys are right. No more professionals for me for anything. From now on, I am going to let my 8 year old neighbor do my taxes. I think I can get my dog to change the oil on my car too. While I am at it, I am going to start keeping my money under my mattress. I don’t want no fool professional banker touching my money! I mean, all those bankers are crooks and thieves, but my mattress is nice and comfy and soft.
I am so tired of hearing how someone is paid too much so lets not watch them. So is anyone who gets paid more than you somehow an uneducated criminal baby that doesn’t deserve your attention? Because many, if not most, of these awful professional athletes are actually educated. Only a select few leave college early. Most finish school, and go on to other professions after their professional sports career.
Sounds like you are making a very rash judgement of an entire group of people based solely on the antics of a few. That sounds like there should be a word for that, but since I can’t find one, here are some examples of the logic you are using:
So when one cop does something bad, all cops are bad.
When one politician does something bad, all politicians are bad.
When one dentist screws up a fill job, all dentists are bad.
When one doctor misses a diagnosis, all doctors are quacks.
When one black guy commits a crime, all blacks are criminals.
When one white guy says something racist, all whites are racists.
Get my point?
Report Post »B4B
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:07amGreat comments both.
Report Post »One non-sequitur.
One self-righteous and indignant.
Did either watch the game?
I wonder.
ProudInfidel
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:05amFreaking sissy baseball players. They should have called Shawn Thornton.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:02amYour really setting a good example for the kids!!!! I watched the hockey championship game people throwing punches makes me sick!!!!! Time to clean up these sports!!!!! I would start with tossing Michael Vick disgusting person!!! There are good people that want to achieve in sports but can’t play because of the bad ones time to clean house!!!!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:00am.
Report Post »Another ******* that needs deporting……. Baseball used to be the American Past time. Where are all the kids that play in the CWS? Why aren’t they making millions? I think the owners are a bunch of Racist’s, for not hiring American’s First. I need a FREAKING interrupter to understand the post game interviews. BOYCOT BASEBALL TILL THEY GO ALL AMERICAN……….
B4B
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:10amWow spank…
Report Post »You expose yourself as a racist, then castigate MLB owners as “racist” for hiring the best talent available (without regard to race).
Why don’t you start with boycotting your own idiotic statements?
quicker
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:20amHey it`s always funto watch grown men act like childern.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 10:58amEasy to boycott something so boring. Far as I‘m concerned there is are only three major sports worth watching Men’s College Basketball,MMA (UFC) and the NFL, everything else is background noise.
Report Post »Pastor Ray
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 12:31pmThe GREATS like Lou Gehrig and his family are gone… You know people who want to be a LEGAL American, WORK for a living and learn the language! Now all there are in our ball parks are lying THEIVES …Law Breaking Crooks…That the American Dream is to STEAL into America Illegally and STEAL as much as you can! And what can we do when all the WELFARE TRASH then elect their lying thieves, pagans and perverts to OUR White House!?! NOTHING! Because Congress is too cotton-pickin’ busy stealing from the tax-payer and padding their pockets and bank accounts!
Report Post »SituationalGravity
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 12:58pmSDM…your comments are boorish, prejudicial and ignorant. Your vision of “All American” baseball is a Utopia as ridiculous as any Marxist vision.
All men are created equal; it is our duty to generate the virtue of our higher-self. The American ideal is consistent with Natural Law and Nature’s God. Your comments resemble someone who favors his lower-self.
It is human nature to be prejudicial, everyone shares this instinct. It is a security trait (it is the root of so-called racism ). But Nature’s God expects us to rise above our human nature.
Now I detest Boston in general; mostly because of their fans. See, that is my prejudicial trait :). If Boston slipped into the harbor to never return, I wouldn’t care. See how childish I can become?
It is a daily task to rise above it all. It is good for us; we will feel better the result. Nature’s God expects us to follow a path of most resistance.
Thank you, SDM, while admonishing you I was able to see my own faults. Criticism is a mirror.
Report Post »Swamp Yankee
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 2:12pmDavid Ortiz chose to become an American citizen and took the oath in 2008. He spends his seasons in Boston and off seasons in Green Bay Wisconsin, where his wife’s family resides. Good luck deporting him, jack*ss.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 9:59amDisgraceful!!! Grow-up Guys!!! Sticks and Stones…..
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:28amIf you have ever had a pitch thrown at your head, you may change your touchy feelly attitude..
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 9:53amOne of the many reasons I don’t watch sports anymore. Bunch of overpaid, immature, crybabies!
Report Post »windycitywoman
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 9:52amHello Blaze friends! I have started a Facebook group designed to pray for GB, his family, Israel and the flotillas. If you are Christian, Conservative “like minded” viewer, please join us! . I am a member of GBTV and we will be discussing his program daily. If you cannot afford GBTV, this is a great way to stay in the loop. Be a part of history and do your part in it. Local communities will also be formed as we grow. We are going to need these connections in the future! Please join us on Facebook (with out the TROLLS) and find me under Sharon Grek Papucci.
Report Post »Non-regulator
Posted on July 9, 2011 at 11:15amYou should always run to first base.
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