America’s pastime turned into Fight Club on Monday.
San Francisco Giants pitcher Hunter Strickland drilled Washington Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper with a fastball in the eighth inning, and Harper immediately took exception. After some words were exchanged, Harper had one of the worst helmet throws you’ll ever see before getting into a massive fight with Strickland.
The benches cleared, and chaos ensued.
Hunter Strickland drilled Bryce Harper and punched him in the face when Harper charger him pic.twitter.com/7QNliRl55K
— Superdrunkmark69 (@cjzer0) May 29, 2017
Wow.
Strickland and Harper obviously were ejected.
As multiple people on Twitter have pointed out, these two have a history.
Bryce Harper and Hunter Strickland have a lot of history before this brawl today. No. 1 https://t.co/aZgfr5uxAe No.2 https://t.co/lXdktfsLqM
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) May 29, 2017
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