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(81,859 posts) Mon May 16, 2016, 10:23 PM May 2016

Padres-Braves 1984 Brawl

ESPN says this is the "best" brawl of all time and I can see why. Multiple fights. Fans fighting players. You don't see stuff like this anymore. These dates people that would fight players can't afford to sit near the dugouts.

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Padres-Braves 1984 Brawl (Original Post) Renew Deal May 2016 OP

Oh man, fans being led off in cuffs. Kingofalldems May 2016 #1

He hit the leadoff batter in the first inning. And he had a reputation fishwax May 2016 #4

"This one is getting very close to being totally out of control" fishwax May 2016 #2

This is just one inning--there was a smaller brawl in the sixth inning and a bigger one in the ninth fishwax May 2016 #3

Kingofalldems

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1. Oh man, fans being led off in cuffs.

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Tue May 17, 2016, 07:10 AM

May 2016

Lots of faces in that video--Torre, Gossage, Hubbard. The ump looks familiar too. Looks like it was a WTBS broadcast.

Apparently they threw at that guy 4 times. Why, I wonder?

fishwax

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4. He hit the leadoff batter in the first inning. And he had a reputation

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Tue May 17, 2016, 11:09 PM

May 2016

for throwing at people, even though (as I said below) I just thought he was erratic with his control. He also did things like shoot batters with a finger gun after he would strike them out. So he wasn't always popular with opponents. Apparently after the first time they threw at him he waved the bat at the pitcher, so that probably helped fuel the fire.

fishwax

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2. "This one is getting very close to being totally out of control"

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Tue May 17, 2016, 10:47 PM

May 2016

Yeah.

fishwax

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3. This is just one inning--there was a smaller brawl in the sixth inning and a bigger one in the ninth

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Tue May 17, 2016, 11:06 PM

May 2016

Pascual Perez. I haven't thought of that guy in a long time. I was a Braves fan as a kid, and he was one of the few good pitchers they had in the 1980s. He was also a little bit of a loose canon. He served a suspension for cocaine (I think earlier in the season of this brawl) and he had a reputation for headhunting, although I always thought he was just occasionally wildly inconsistent with his control. Think Nuke LaLoosh, before Crash Davis had the chance to mentor him.

He also drew heat for some of his antics. He sprinted to the mound at the beginning of each inning and off of it at the end of it. And when he'd strike an opponent out he "shoot" them with his finger "gun."

He hit the first batter of the game, and the Padres came after him the rest of the game. There was a minor brawl after his 6th inning at bat. Then, in the inning after the brawl in this video, with Perez taken out for a pinch runner after the HBP, the new Braves pitcher hit the leadoff batter, and everything exploded again.

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