VIDEO: Coco Crisp and the Sox-Rays Brawl
EveryJoe » Sports Rumors —
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 version of the fight (3m, 41s) is here: ...
Video Confirmation: The Rays and Red Sox Really Do Hate Each Other
FanHouse —
Filed under: Boston, Red Sox, Rays, AL East, Tampa Bay The story: As retaliation for a questionable slide Wednesday, James Shields hits Coco Crisp. Coco Crisp doesn't like that. Coco Crisp attacks James Shields. And then things get, in the words of my man Will, totally brahsome. Coco starts punching, the benches clear, Akinori Iwamura pounds the undercarriages of unidentified Red Sox with repeated jabs -- it was a great brawl. Satisfying stuff. Don't expect the rivalry to dissipate soon, either: Shields says ...
