In my talks with Terry Pluto, a guy that he seems to miss is Coco Crisp. Obviously, Jason Michaels didn’t exactly pan out as planned, so you can see why. However, the video below is one of the dirtier plays I have seen in baseball for quite some time - okay, maybe like...

Red Sox-Rays Brawl After Coco Crisp Hit By James Shields Pitch

Boston center fielder Coco Crisp was hit on the right hip by Tampa Bay right-hander James Shields, prompting a benches-clearing brawl in the second inning of their game Thursday night.

The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays have a bench-clearing brawl after Coco Crisp gets beaned.

Manny Ramirez homered, drove in five runs and got into a shouting match with a teammate as Boston beat Tampa Bay 7-1 Thursday night in a game that included a bench-clearing brawl between the Red Sox and Rays. TV cameras showed Ramirez and Kevin ...

Nothing like watching a good fight and getting the blow by blow coverage from the man who started it. Coco Crisp takes us through the fight that took place between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays today at Fenway Park.

Boston Red Sox centerfielder Coco Crisp says the Tampa Bay Rays pulled his hair and scratched him during the brawl . . . like "little girls."

Boston Red Sox outfielder Coco Crisp gives a play-by-play of his brawl with Tampa Bay Rays pitcher James Shields.

A total of eight members of the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays were suspended for their roles in a benches-clearing fight between the teams on Wednesday,

I suppose you could just go back in the B&C archives and read: Great Moments In Devil Ray History: Boston Beef But the video’s nice too: Thursday’s brawl, of course, opens a whole new and wonderful chapter in the long and ...

Hat tip to Awful Announcing : Fight Uploaded by bsap11   I'm not at all proud of this. Shields and the Rays needed to handle this better -- not at all perhaps -- and on top of a stupid fight and sure to be coming suspensions ...

Video evidence of the brawl started by Matt Kemp and Yorvit Torrealba that ends with a bunch of baseball players milling about like they're at a cocktail party.

Matt Kemp takes umbrage at Yorvit Torrealba's tag and starts a rumble.

The Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays showed up for a brawl, and somehow a baseball game managed to break out. The official tally of carnage by the end of the dustup: 3 ejections (Coco Crisp, James Shields, Jonny Gomes), 1 missed haymaker, 1 cuff to the back ...

Check out this video of of the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays brawl. James Shields hit Coco Crisp with a pitch and after a brief hesitation, Crisp charged the mound. After dodging a viscous punch from Shields, Crisp hot in a couple punches of his own. Crisp was then tackled by a couple of Rays before the scuffle was eventually broken up. The story behind this brawl actually goes back ...

Fricking awesome. First of all, Rick Sutcliffe not only called it, he demanded it. which you can watch here . This bench-clearing brawl was BY FAR the most awesome baseball-related fight that didn't involve a bat and wasn't on Youtube I have ever seen. In my life. James Shields throws the haymaker and MISSES?! That's just unfortunate. And while Coco Crisp got a couple good punches in ...

BOSTON -- The skirmishes between Coco Crisp and the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night erupted into full-scale war Thursday night. Rays starter James Shields hit Crisp in the thigh with the first pitch he threw him as Crisp led off the bottom of the second inning. Crisp charged the mound and a bench-clearing fight ensued. And unlike your typical baseball fights, this one lasted a while and ...

BOSTON, MA — Boston Red Sox outfielder Coco Crisp says punching wasn’t the only thing going on between him and Tampa Bay Rays catcher Dioner Navarro at the bottom of the pile in last night’s bench-clearing brawl. “At first when he tackled me, I thought he was trying to fight,” Crisp told reporters. “Then, when he didn’t throw any punches and the ...

The bench-clearing brawl between Tampa Bay and Boston Thursday night was noticed by MLB's disciplinary lord, Bob Watson.

Major League Baseball wasted no time in meting out discipline for last night’s brawl between the Red Sox and Rays at Fenway Park. Eight players (3 Red Sox) were suspended a total of thirty-eight games, all were fined undisclosed amounts for their actions. Red Sox outfielder Coco Crisp got the stiffest penalty, a 7-game suspension, for charging the mound… he is appealing. Jon ...

Josh Q. Public: Don’t give us none of your aggravation. We had it with your discipline. Saturday night’s all right for fighting. Get a little action in. -Elton John Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! You all saw it. Saw the brawl. The brawl to end them all. Saw the Red Sox/Rays bench clearing donnybrook. I love that word. Donnybrook. It was no  ...

Boston outfielder Coco Crisp, Tampa Bay pitcher James Shields and six other players were suspended Friday following a pair of altercations at Fenway Park. Three Red Sox were suspended: Crisp for seven games, pitcher Jon Lester for five games and first baseman Sean Casey for three games. Major League Baseball disciplinarian Bob Watson penalized five Rays: Shields for six games, outfielder ...

"I was at a boxing match last night and a hockey game broke out". An oldie, but goodie. Last night a brawl broke out at the Rays-Red Sox baseball game. Sox centerfielder Coco Crisp became a marked man after his questionableslide into 2nd Baseman Aki Iwamura (yeah the same guy Shelley Duncan spiked) the night before (Crisp said it was in retaliation for Jason Bartlett blocking the bag earlier ...

Last night’s Red Sox/Tampa Bay game featured so many crazy things going on that the actual action of the game was overwhelmed and pushed to the side. After Wednesday’s unnecessary hard slide and then subsequent yelling match between Coco Crisp and Rays hipster manager Joe Maddon (my favorite part was when Coco pointed at his uniform and yelled, “We’re the Red Sox ...

It's MLB Fight Week, '08 and last night in Boston things got taken up a notch. Coco Crisp and James Shields threw wildly inaccurate haymakers at each other before benches cleared and Coco was gang beaten next to the mound. The only thing missing was a pillow case filled with bars of soap. Watch it before it gets taken down by the Baseball Fun Police! Emotions and PEDs were still ...

“You look at these series, they beat us soundly twice out of two series in this ballpark, and I tip my hat to them.”– Joe Maddon Courtsey of Yahoo! Sports: Red Sox 7, Rays 1 BOSTON (AP)— Manny Ramirez homered, drove in five runs and got into a shouting match with a teammate as Boston beat Tampa Bay 7-1 Thursday night in a game that included a bench-clearing brawl ...

Welcome to a new feature at Wax Heaven where I find the most interesting (or in this case notorious) photo and post it along with some information & eBay links. The photo that inspired this feature is of the Red Sox/Rays brawl between Coco Crisp and James Shields. For the record, I don’t think Coco would have gotten away with a hard slide like that on Hanley Ramirez or Dan Uggla. ...

The night started out with Stephen King on the NESN pre-game show and just got weirder from there. We had a benches clearing brawl , a fight between two Boston Red Sox players and in between all that there was a baseball game being played as the Red Sox beat the Rays 7-1 for their 13th straight win at Fenway Park and their 6th straight win over the Rays. The Red Sox had come into this ...