Northern Essex
Breaking Down the Ugly Finish to the Suffolk-Northern Essex District Game
The Situation: With Northern Essex leading 8-3 in the top of the ninth inning–needing just three defensive outs to qualify for the NJCAA World Series next week–their batter took exception to a pitch that was near his head. He immediately began to scream at the pitcher while aggressively approaching him. Both dugouts emptied, and several punches were thrown. A couple players were struck in the face and it continued for at least 1 minute before the coaches and umpires were able to diffuse the situation and get the players in the dugout. In the below video, most of the damage had already occurred prior to the beginning of the footage. The umpires are discussing whether to end the game after this bench clearing brawl pic.twitter.com/Kz8luR26We — aXcess Baseball (@axcessbasebal...
