There’s been a huge focus on the pace of play during baseball games this season. We can just assume that the clock was turned off during this bench-clearing brawl between Single-A squads for the Yankees and Phillies.
During a game at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Sunday afternoon, the Tampa Tarpons were hosting the Clearwater Thrashers for a Florida State League matchup. Tampa hurler Alex Bustamante hit Erick Brito with a pitch. Third base coach Marty Malloy thought there was some intent behind the HBP and needed to let his feelings be known. He exchanged words with Tarpons pitching coach Gerardo Casadiego at home plate, and that’s when things went up a notch:
Like with many baseball brawls, there’s a lot of standing around and jawing going on here.