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DAYTON- A spectator is hit by a wild pitch after a fight breaks out at a Dragons game. The man was sitting in the second row at Fifth Third Field when Pitcher Julio Castillo for the Peoria Chiefs flung the ball at full speed hitting the man in head. According to witnesses the ball was thrown so hard it hit the man and bounced five rows behind him where it landed in another spectators lap.  ...
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Let's Play The Feud: Minor League Brawl Edition
AwfulAnnouncing — ... Via ABC22 In Dayton: The hit fan was taken to the Miami Valley hospital conscious, no word yet to the extent of his injuries. He had come to the game with his wife and two children. ...

Brawls Are In The Air
SOX & Dawgs — ... loose. Here is the video goodness of part of the brawl. There is no volume to the video. All told, 15 players from both sides were ejected from the game and Castillo was placed under arrest. He will be arraigned later today. The game was actually postponed before Midwest League president George Spelius reinstated all the players so the teams could finish the game. The game finished incident free from that point The injured fan was taken to the hospital and the extent of his injuries are not known at this ...

Mayhem In The Midwest League [Baseball Fisticuffs]
Deadspin — ... As for the fan Castillo hit; he was reportedly struck in the head so hard that the ball caromed five rows behind him and landed in another fan's lap. Also, somewhere in there, Peoria second baseman Gian Guzman suffered a broken leg. ...

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