Scott Servais, now the Mariners manager, was in the center of an infamous 16-minute brawl between the Cubs and Mets. “It got pretty biblical,” says Pete Harnisch, who instigated the fight against his former teammate and close friend, Servais.
PEORIA, Ariz. — Scott Servais is very happy to have former major-league pitcher Pete Harnisch in the Mariners’ organization as a special assistant in player development. He believes Harnisch’s outsized personality, as well as the knowledge gained from a 14-year career, will help at both the major- and minor-league level.
Yet the new Mariners manager knows that the first question that comes up, always and forever, when the names Servais and Harnisch are linked, is about the wild and crazy incident at Shea Stadium on May 11, 1996.