Things are always tense when the White Sox and Cubs get together to play for Chicago bragging rights. Even more so this week as both clubs have a real chance to win their respective divisions and an even better chance to make the playoffs.
The White Sox traveled up to the Friendly Confines on Monday night to kick off a three-game series and eventually found themselves on the wrong end of a 7-5 loss. Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong became the first Major Leaguer to hit a leadoff home run and a walk-off home run in the same game since 2010.
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Not all of the most compelling action took place out on the playing surface of Wrigley Field and the rival fanbases did not mix well in the right field bleachers late in the game. A massive brawl broke out with the outcome still very much in doubt, drawing in an impressive number of involved parties and requiring significant security forces to break up.
The footage is pretty gnarly for a regular season baseball game.
One understands why these melees happen. And they are certainly not anything new as fans have been getting into it physically at sporting events ever since the first person said “play ball.” Yet every time it’s worth wondering how the heck all of these people who are implicated go on with their lives the next few days when they’ve gone viral for completely losing the plot and their cool.
Do they even know how the game played out in the 10th inning? Do they even care, regardless of rooting interest, that Crow-Armstrong blasted a game-winning dinger or are they focused on other stuff right now?
As a reminder—not that many need it—don’t do this. Makes for a rough Tuesday morning.
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