Let's be honest, baseball players hardly ever fight for real, the way Robin Ventura and Nolan Ryan did. The Cardinals-Diamondbacks incident over the weekend made a lot of headlines, but it was really a whole lot of nothing. Well, yesterday was a different story. Wednesday's games featured not one but twou200b pretty legit brawls.
One of them involved the Yankees and Red Sox, of course, who did some milling around on the field earlier in the game before things got real in the seventh.
The Sox were upset that Yankees first baseman Tyler Austin went spikes up on a slide and wasn't punished, so Joe Kelly threw a heater into his back.