In a scene reminiscent of the 2004 brawl between Boston Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek and New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, the Single-A South Atlantic League affiliates of the teams got into a brawl on Friday night.
Apparently there had been some bad blood from earlier games between the Greenville Drive (Red Sox) and Charleston RiverDogs (Yankees). So when Drive pitcher Miguel Celestino hit Slade Heathcott on the second pitch of the game last night, Heathcott took exception and went after Drive catcher Christian Vazquez.
The benches cleared and after the ensuing battle royale (seen below), Heathcott and Vazquez were ejected along Charleston reliever Kelvin Perez and Drive reliever Garrett Rau.
