Advances In Basebrawl Weaponry Are Being Made Every Day

It is a rare occasion when baseball players actually land any solid punches in a bench-clearing brawl, and this clip will be no different. No heavyweight blows connected cleanly in Tuesday's bout between Braves starter Reynaldo Lopez and Angels outfielder Jorge Soler. It was pretty rowdy nonetheless. Keep an eye out for a flying tackle of Soler by Atlanta manager Walt Weiss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg4M02JzKOg Soler had homered off of Lopez in his first at-bat and gotten plunked in his second. That, one might think, would be the end of it, honor restored all around in whatever silly red-assed code required it. But in the fifth inning, Lopez sailed a pitch to the backstop. He said there was no intent behind it, and that's plausible enough, given it allowed a runner to move into scoring position in a close game. Soler wasn't having it. "I asked him if everything was OK and the answer he gave me, I didn’t like it," Soler said afterward. "That’s why I went out there.”