Like any other sport, baseball has its own fair share of brawls in it. One such brawl happened last night between the Baltimore Orioles and the Toronto Blue Jays match. Orioles pitcher Bryan Baker struck out Blue Jays’ third baseman, Matt Chapman, and made some gestures towards the Toronto Blue Jays dugout. Which, apparently, angered the team enough to clear the benches to come on the field.
Designated hitter of the Toronto Blue Jays, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. looked like the most angered of all the Jays’ players and had to be held from doing any harm to Baker until Baker was completely out of the field.?
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What did Bryan Baker gesture to the Jays’ dugout?
Since the players in the ballpark are not mic’d up, no one other than the player himself can exactly tell what he did say on the field. Likewise, what Baker gestured to the Jays’ dugout was not clear.
The Blue Jays and Orioles benches clear after Bryan Baker struck out Matt Chapman to end the top of the seventh. pic.twitter.com/ta30veGijc
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Either he meant for the Blue Jays to shut up or keep talking. But whatever it was, was enough for the tempers to rise at Jays’ dugout, and for players to come on the field.
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After gesturing or saying whatever he said to the Jays, he started to walk off the field. The one player who was most angered of all was Vladimir Guerrero Jr. He had to be held down in order to apparently stop a fist fight from happening between the two players.
What happened after Baker started to walk off the field?
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Not only Guerrero Jr had to be held from buzzing off, but also Teoscar Hern?ndez. And during so, his t-shirt also got torn.
Baker however looked pretty calm in the dugout, like he had done nothing. However, in the video, it can be seen that Baker made some hand gestures and said something as well.?
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At the same time, since the Jays’ dugout was not shown, it is not clear who initiated it. But Baker indeed made a gesture that angered the Toronto Bench.
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