Posted on 04/19/2020 11:25:11 AM PDT by DFG
Things are starting to get heated in the Taiwan baseball league.
Some fans looking for their sports fix have tuned in to the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), which restarted last week with robots and cardboard cutouts in the stands amid the coronavirus outbreak. And anyone watching Sunday’s Rakuten Monkeys-Fubon Guardians game on Eleven Sports — which streams Monkeys games on Twitter with English commentary — witnessed the benches clear after Guardians pitcher Henry Sosa drilled Monkeys infielder Kuo Yen-Wen.
Sosa, a 34-year-old right-hander who made 10 starts for the Astros in 2011, kept throwing far inside to Kuo in the bottom of the fourth inning before finally hitting him on the buttocks. Tempers quickly flared as both dugouts emptied for some pushing and shoving.
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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!
That’s Racist ...
Too bad we don’t have more of this in our Congress.
Agreed. I’d love someone to throw Crying Chuck or Nutty Nan this way.
Too bad we don’t have ANY of this in congress. Other countries do.
Yep, our Congress is nothing but a club, behind close doors, they are all good pals. It’s an act to give us the illusion of choice.
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
Still more people than attend a Marlins home game.
Over there they grab swords to fight.
Meanwhile the MLB channel has been running some great classic Major League Baseball games. This afternoon they had Game 7 of the 2016 Cubs/Indians World Series (which had a dramatic ending in the tenth inning), and earlier Game 7 of the 1992 NL playoff series between Pittsburgh and Atlanta (where the Pirates were ahead until the bottom of the 9th inning).
If the benches clear in a stadium, and there is no one there to see it, is it really a bench-clearing brawl?
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