July 24, 2004
又打起来了
下午在 Haymarket 附近，听到酒吧里面一阵欢呼，跑过去一看，电视里面刚好是 YANKEES 和 Sox 在 FENWAY PARK 又一次打群架，去到 Quincy Market 的时候，路边坐着一个少年，T-shirt 上面两行大字。Yankees suck.
路上到处都是转播车，大概是为了转播下周民主党全国代表大会。下面的照片是路透社的。
Wild rumble at Fenway
After the Yankees grabbed a 3-0 in the third, Red Sox starting pitcher Bronson Arroyo plunked Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez would not go quietly to first base.
(Reuters Photo)
Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek slowly strolls along with Alex Rodriguez, as the Yankees third baseman gets in a verbal sparring match with Sox starter Bronson Arroyo.
(AP Photo)
Apparently Sox catcher Jason Varitek has had enough of Alex Rodriguez and his banter, as he shoves the Yankees third baseman in the face. A bench clearing scrum ensued, and both Varitek and Rodriguez were subsequently ejected.
(Globe Staff Photo / Barry Chin)
Yankees starter Tanyon Sturtze gets Gabe Kapler in a chokehold before David Ortiz enters and throws Sturtze to the ground.
Yankees players push the scrum as Sturtze tumbles to the ground with Kapler and Ortiz.
Yankees and Red Sox brawl again
By Jimmy Golen, Associated Press, 7/24/2004 20:10
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BOSTON (AP) A bench-clearing brawl broke out between the Yankees and Boston Red Sox on Saturday after Bronson Arroyo hit New York's Alex Rodriguez with a pitch in the top of the third inning.
Rodriguez stared down Arroyo as he started walking toward first. Catcher Jason Varitek, still wearing his mask, got between them as the AL MVP walked up the baseline and, after some jawing, pushed the Yankees star in the face. The dugouts and bullpens emptied.
Several scrums erupted, with Gabe Kapler battling Yankees starter Tanyon Sturtze, soon joined by Boston's Trot Nixon and David Ortiz. Sturtze was bleeding from the left ear.
Varitek and Rodriguez were ejected from the game by plate umpire Bruce Froemming, as were the Yankees' Kenny Lofton and Kapler. Boston manager Terry Francona was ejected in the fifth inning after arguing a call by second base umpire Mike Winters, who ruled Johnny Damon was forced at second base on a throw by right fielder Gary Sheffield after second baseman Enrique Wilson dropped a popup.
Sturtze pitched the bottom of the third with mud or blood on his shoulder, but he left after the inning with a bruised right pinky finger; precautionary X-rays were negative.
The Red Sox are desperately in need of a spark as they chase New York, which led 3-0 at the time and began the day 9½ games ahead of Boston in the AL East. Boston has never come back from more than 10 games behind to win the division.
The teams also brawled last fall at Fenway Park during Game 3 of the AL championship series, when Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez threw 72-year-old Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer to the ground. Zimmer, a former Boston manager who is now with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, apologized the next day.
In 1976, New York's Lou Piniella collided with Boston catcher Carlton Fisk at home plate in Yankee Stadium and came up swinging. In the ensuing fight, Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee was body-slammed and wound up with a broken collarbone.
Rodriguez is proving to be a catalyst for the escalation of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. Boston had a tentative deal to acquire the third baseman from Texas in December. That fell through and the Yankees acquired him two months later.
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner declined comment, spokesman Howard Rubenstein said. Rubenstein added that Steinbrenner may have something to say about the fight next week.