There was a benches-clearing incident in the New York Mets – St. Louis Cardinals game on Wednesday.
In MLB, most benches-clearing incidents usually feature the two teams running to the diamond, and a lot of pushing around once they get there.
A famous game show host wondered about a common situation in these brawls.
“There was a bench-clearing incident in @Mets @Cardinals game tonight. It made me wonder again why players run all the way in from the bullpen to join the action. Wouldn’t it be easier and quicker just to fight out there?,” Pat Sajak tweeted.
There was a bench-clearing incident in @Mets @Cardinals game tonight. It made me wonder again why players run all the way in from the bullpen to join the action. Wouldn’t it be easier and quicker just to fight out there?
— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) April 28, 2022
If you think about it, it’s hilarious to think how members of the team can run right next to each other for a bunch of yards without even looking at the other, only to start pushing and pulling themselves once they get to the ‘scrum.’
The best is when there is a brawl at Camden Yards. The bullpens are behind each other and use the same gate to the field, so the relievers run in together. Then they grab each other when they reach the brawl.
— STEVEN BLOMBERG (@BLOMS86) April 28, 2022
An Odd Behavior, To Say The Least
It’s like the fighting venue is at the diamond or around the mound, and pushing is illegal before reaching that point.
Twitter user @greenmanville said, in the replies, that “what’s funny is that in some ballparks, the guys in the bullpen can’t even see what’s happening on the field. So it takes them a while to get with the program.”
What’s funny is that in some ballparks, the guys in the bullpen can’t even see what’s happening on the field. So it takes them a while to get with the program.
— HR Henderson (@greenmanville) April 28, 2022
Indeed, many guys, specifically those in bullpens, run towards the melee with no idea about what happened, just for the sake of sticking up for their teammates.
That is nice, sure, but is also funny and doesn’t make a ton of sense.
We can bet that a lot of the players and coaches running to the field when Nolan Arenado and Yoan Lopez started the incident didn’t even know why they were running.
Just another day in MLB.
