The Braves and Angels went from zero to 100 actual fast on Tuesday evening.
And it wasn’t precisely heavenly in Anaheim.
The groups acquired right into a chaotic benches-clearing brawl that even noticed Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler and Braves starter Reynaldo Lopez throw punches at one another.
With two outs within the backside of the fifth, Soler took a pitch up-and-in that went to the backstop, which allowed Nolan Schanuel to go from first to second base.
However issues solely escalated from there. Soler appeared to take exception to the pitch and stared down Lopez as he acquired a brand new ball for the following pitch. The starter held out each of his arms, seemingly in disbelief on the response. However earlier than lengthy, Soler dropped his bat and the 2 each threw punches because the dugouts emptied.
Because the motion veered towards the primary bottom line, a couple of Braves gamers tackled Soler to the bottom earlier than he might inflict any actual harm on Lopez. Angels star Mike Trout and Braves first base coach Antoan Richardson pushed Lopez again to maintain him out of the fray as the remainder of the groups converged round Soler.
As soon as the brouhaha was fully quelled, Soler and Lopez walked off and have been performed for the evening, getting ejected from the ballgame. No different gamers have been tossed.
Soler hit a two-run homer within the first inning, the one two runs Lopez allowed in his abbreviated outing.
