Violence Ensues After Cuban Dodger Yasiel Puig Celebrations Sparks Fire in Baseball League

Former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig is in the thick of it yet again. The Cuban baseball player is currently part of the Venezuelan Winter League and plays for the Tiburones de La Guaira. The 33-year-old found himself in the middle of the action after tensions inflated between the two teams after a home run celebration.

Puig was always famous for his on-field antics, tryst with anger, and energetic presence on the field. On this note, a viral video of the fight from the matchday has gone viral, and it showed the Cuban getting slapped by a member of the opponent team. Let’s find out what this former MLB outfielder resorts to after getting hit.

Yakiel Puig is always in the middle of the heat

A man famous for getting involved in many brawls in his baseball career at Major League Baseball, Yasiel was the inactive member in this particular fight. According to reports, the fight broke out over an emotionally charged home run celebration that irked Yasiel’s team. As tensions rose, Puig made his way to the middle to stop the fight.

Instead, he was greeted in the mess with a brutal slap to his face. Perhaps, a younger Yasiel would retaliate but here he did not even flinch. The opponent player quickly backed away after the slap, fearful of getting brutally hit back in reply.

The entire fight broke out over an objection to a bat flip and some words being passed around. Yasiel’s team La Guaira won the first two games comfortably, with the scoreline reading 12-10 and 7-5 in the two games respectively.

Fans of Major League Baseball and Los Angeles Dodgers, in particular, will know all about Yasiel Puig and his antics. His most famous was the verbal spat with Madison Bumgarner, the pitcher from the San Francisco Giants, or even the 2013 Dodgers vs Diamondbacks brawl.

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His last season in MLB was in 2019 and the Cuban has tried to break into the league every year since. After leaving, he participated in baseball leagues all over the world from Mexico, and South Korea, to the Dominican Republic.

A return to Major League, however, looks tough for the 33-year-old. Such a violent and topsy-turvy history, along with his infamous connection to a sports gambling operation, where he pleaded guilty to one count, make a return unlikely. There were murmurs of him getting signed this year, but nothing came to fruition despite his rich vein of form. The action and fight, however, always seem to follow Yasiel everywhere he goes.

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