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 ...

Everyone expected Boston Red Sox centerfielder Coco Crisp to get beaned after his hand-to-nutsack combat with Tampa Bay Rays’ Achinori Iwamura yesterday, but this turned into a brawl normally reserved for a Sox-Yanks smackdown. Crisp got tossed, as did Rays pitcher James Shields and outfielder Jonny Gomes. ESPN has a clip (44s) of the bench-clearing brawl and a lower resolution ...

Coco Crisp charged the mound after James Shields threw at Coco, and Crisp avoided a powerful right hand from Shields that would have gotten approval from Muhammad Ali himself and got in a punch before Shields, Dioner Navarro and others overwhelmed Crisp and slammed him to the ground, raining punches on him. Crisp and Shields were immediately ejected. This comes on the heels of a game last ...

Ah, here's some of the fall-out from Fight Night a few days ago between the Rays and Red Sox... Boston Red Sox outfielder Coco Crisp, Tampa Bay Rays pitcher James Shields and six other players were suspended yesterday after a brawl 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 ...

Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox recently got into a little scuffle in the dugout as the team was playing the Tampa Bay Rays. You can watch a video of the Youkilis and Ramirez fight at the end of this entry. The story that goes along with this fight involves some Red Sox teammates supposedly having a problem with Youkilis slamming bats and throwing his helmet after ...

Please adjust your lineups accordingly. Red Sox Coco Crisp - 7 games Jon Lester - 5 games Sean Casey - 3 games Rays James Shields - 6 games Jonny Gomes - 5 games Edwin Jackson - 5 games Carl Crawford - 4 games Akinori Iwamura - 3 games

Coco Crisp will be suspended for his actions in last night's brawl - that's no surprise. But what is surprising is that Jon Lester also earned himself a suspension... as did Nicest Guy On Earth Sean Casey . Although the reasons are not published, it's fairly easy to guess why Coco, Lester and Casey will be riding the pine. Coco - 7 game suspension, to begin tonight Charging the mound, ...

Young girls across throughout Massachusetts were appalled by being compared to Tampa Bay Rays last night by Red Sox center fielder Coco Crisp. Crisp was involved in a dust-up with the Rays in which he was tackled by Dioner Navarro. Akinori Iwamura, Carl Crawford, and Jonny Gomes then proceeded to claw and flail away at the subdued Crisp, who was pinned under Navarro. In his post-game ...

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 ...

Awesome night for Boston douchebaggery. Rule #1 after you've gotten your ass kicked in a fight: Say the other guy fought unfair. Like, he "pulled my hair," "bum-rushed me," or the ultimate douchebag sucker-punch nut shot, "fought like a girl." There is something overwhelming lame about a guy who stands before the media, the way Coco Crisp did after the Rays-Sox brawl, trying to sell his story

One out into the top of the fourth inning, Kevin Youkilis jogged out to right field. The Red Sox' third center fielder of the game, J.D. Drew , had taken his position. There had been one swollen and reddened nose ( Coco Crisp 's), three ejections, and Chris Carter 's major league debut. Oh, and soon after, Manny Ramírez and Youkilis had to be separated in the dugout. It was just ...

As if Boston needed any more sports stories to soak in, the Red Sox battled the Rays for first place in the AL East and did what they could to get the attention of fans across the city. I think it worked. After a HBP in the second inning, Coco Crisp charged the mound and was pummeled by Dioner Navarro , Jonny Gomes , and Carl Crawford following a swing and a miss from pitcher James Shields . ...

Coco Crisp wasn't the only Sox getting into a dustup last night . Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis got into a fracas of their own... with each other. During the break between the fourth and fifth innings, Manny and Youk exchanged words in the dugout-- about which no one knows (and Tito wasn't forthcoming in the post-game press conference). Whatever was said, it was enough to cause the ...

Red Sox OF Cocok Crisp charged the mound after he was thrown at by Rays pitcher James Shields. Crisp took the brunt of these blows with other Rays players landing some solid punches. I just watched Baseball Tonight and it turns out Crisp was angered about a innocent play at 2B in another game. On his next slide he went cleat first into second, injuring a Rays player. No wonder the Rays ...

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 ...

You knew this was coming. After all the hard feelings of the previous night, you knew it was just a matter of when the Tampa Bay Rays would retaliate against Coco Crisp. Surprisingly, it was in the bottom of the second inning, when Tampa Bay pitcher James Shields hit leadoff batter Crisp on the second pitch of the at-bat, and Crisp charged the mound, and it set off a benches-clearing brawl. ...

Fight by bsap11 Coco Crisp and James Shields go at it. Video via Awful Announcing .

I won't lie, this video is horrible, but it's all we got right now. Anyway, as you probably know, Coco Crisp charged the mound in the second inning tonight after he was beaned by James Shields. This series was already pretty heated to begin with. Yesterday the Sox wrestled first place in the AL East away from the Rays and Rays manager Joe Maddon accused Crisp of ...

Check out this screen grab from the Tampa Bay Rays' website: (full-size pic) It looks fake - almost like a photoshop of Shields delivering a pitch. If you are a Rays fan (they do exist, right?), you have to be concerned with your young ace throwing haymakers like this. Not to mention the sweep your team just suffered at the hands of the Sox, even if it was in Fenway. Predictably, Johnny ...

Coco Crisp was just drilled by James Shields in the side. He originally acted calm, then charged the mound. James Sheilds went for a colossal right hand and completely missed, and Coco landed a right jab to Sheilds’ ear. Crisp was tackled by catcher Dioner Navarro right after he hit Shields. Jonny Gomes ran from the dugout and proceeded to pound Coco while he was held down. Big man. ...