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FlyMaster Once again baseball players prove they can't fight. What kind of ninny throws a ball instead of a punch in a brawl? I feel for the fan who got clipped.
Peoria Chiefs Pitcher Julio Castillo Is Psycho, Arrested on Felony Assault
Larry Brown Sports —
Rekindling the spirit of Jose Offerman, Julio Castillo did one of the worst things I’ve ever seen come happen in a sports brawl. As you might have seen on the highlight shows, the Dayton Dragons and Peoria Chiefs had a massive fight on Thursday night. I mean this fight was full of venom, with players acting with seriously malicious intent. Check out the video from a fan’s view:
That was easily one of the worst fights I’ve ever seen. There were a few hit batters involved and an infielder taken out by a baserunner that led to the brawl. And ...
Bair Unsuccessful in Peace Keeping Attempts
Pittsburgh Pirates —
I live in Dayton. And while the Dayton Dragons are a Reds affiliate, I couldn’t resist noting that there was a huge brawl that involved two former Buccos. The Dragons were at home against the Peoria Chiefs when a big time brawl erupted. There were a couple of HBP and Dragons manager Donnie Scott and Chiefs interim manager Carmelo Martinez (former Pirate) started arguing toe-to-toe. Martinez gave Scott a forearm shove. As players started to converge, Chiefs pitcher Julio Castillo threw a ball with full force toward the Dragons dugout. Apparently he missed and hit a fan. Brandon Menchaca leaped on Castillo’s back from behind and then it ...
Take me out to the Brawl game
Redleg Nation —
Know that old line about going to a fight and a hockey game broke out?
Well, that was what happened last night at the Dayton Dragons game that I attended…
More below the fold…
According to the DDN, the tension started when Dayton starter Kyle Lotzkar hit a Peoria hitter in the first inning, the 4th Peoria player hit in 2 nights. I can speak for what happened on Wednesday night, but I will say that tensions started to rise in the bottom of the first when Peoria pitcher Julio Castillo hit Dragons SS Zach Cozart in the helmet.
Cozart lay on the grown for several minutes, his helmet was knocked ...
Column Lead Today: Minor-League Brawl
Dan Shanoff —
More in a bit. This can help pass the time. It'll be everywhere, shortly enough...
Shanoff's Wake-Up Call: More Crazy Brawling
The Sporting Blog —
Today's Calls: Minor-league baseball vs. WNBA, Nancy Lieberman vs. Brett Favre, Carlos Zambrano vs. Ryan Braun, Andris Biedrins vs. Josh Childress and More.
The Opening Pitch: Brawls are the new hotness! Not even Nancy Lieberman can stop them!
On the day the WNBA handed down expansive (10 players plus Mahorn) but largely tame (4 games at worst) suspensions, minor-league baseball gets in on the act.
Here's the Fan-cam footage shot by someone mere feet from yesterday's wild melee between the Peoria Chiefs and Dayton Dragons. ...
Now THAT’s a Basebrawl
The Big Lead —
Pandemonium in Peoria last night: a rough minor league game turned into an all-out rumble, and 17 players were ejected. As managers barked at one another and benches emptied, pitcher Julio Castillo of Dayton hurled a baseball into the Peoria dugout … except it sailed into the stands and drilled a fan, sending them to the hospital. Solid work by the Dayton Daily News, which has video and many photos.
Minor League Scrap: Dayton vs Peoria… Who ya got?
Hail Mary Jane —
ESPN - Fifteen players and both managers were ejected — and a fan was sent to the hospital — following a 10-minute, benches-clearing brawl in a Class-A minor league game between affiliates of the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs on Thursday night.
The ejections were reversed by the league president George Spelius and the game was completed with Dayton winning 6-5.
The fan was taken to the hospital after being hit by a ball thrown by Peoria (Cubs) pitcher Julio Castillo, who was throwing at the Dayton (Reds) dugout but missed during the first-inning ...
Scary Minor League Brawl
Mac Gs World —
A huge Minor League baseball fight broke out in Dayton, Ohio last night between the Dayton Dragons and Peoria Chiefs I located this video from a fan's vantage point in the stands. There appears to be some serious meat heads attending this minor league baseball game. "It was a big brawl," said Ben Means, 25, a fan from New Carlisle. "I like that kind of enthusiasm. It was sweet. We're excited. It's cool." No wonder MMA is extremely popular these days. During the game a Chiefs 2B broke his leg and a Dragons ...
Minor Game Major Brawl
My Pinstripes —
A pitcher is in a Dayton, Ohio jail this morning, charged with felony assault after a huge brawl broke out in yesterday's Peoria Chiefs-Dayton Dragons Single-A baseball game. What started out as a heated argument between the team's managers, escalated when Peoria pitcher Julio Castillo fired a baseball at the Dayton dugout. To make matters worse, Castillo missed, and instead hit a fan sitting behind the dugout. It also emptied the Dayton bench and the melee was on. It all started in the 2nd inning when Castillo beaned Dragons ...
Thursday Night Fights
RealClearSports - Blog —
Here's the story and video everyone will be talking about today. To say that a fight broke out in last night's minor league baseball game between the Peoria Chiefs and the Dayton Dragons would be somewhat of an understatement. ...
Baseball fights don't get more frightening than this one
Big League Stew —
Usually when we post baseball fight videos here on the Stew, it's to have a voyeuristic look at men being boys with tempers flaring in the heat of battle but with no real damage being done. However, Thursday night's 10-minute fight between the Dayton Dragons and Peoria Chiefs, which saw 15 players and both managers ejected, crashes through that boundary of an ultimately harmless brouhaha and enters full-fledged nightmare brawl territory with an absolutely haunting image. If you haven't seen it already, check out the video from the Dayton Daily News (there's no sound, so don't readjust your sets at home) and try not to flinch when ...
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Ivy Chat —
Last night's fight between the Peoria Cheifs and the Dayton Dragons. Some audio NSFW. Can't imagine how this would have gone down had Ryne Sandberg been there.
Opinion: Peoria Chiefs vs. Dayton Dragons vs. Sanity
Playing for Peanuts Blog —
When people hear about a fiery manger (like Wally Backman or Ozzie Guillen) getting ejected, bumping an umpire or throwing bats on the field, they sometimes use words like "childish" or "disgraceful." It shows a general lack of knowledge of the game and the etiquette of baseball (read this book if you're one of these people), but everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, there are times when the words "childish" and "disgraceful" should be used to describe events on the diamond because they go far beyond motivating players and showing up an umpire. This is one of those ...
Cub farmhand loses his mind - maybe his freedom
Pitchers Hit Eighth :: A St. Louis Cardinals blog —
Leave it to the Cubs organization to do something to put the Cardinals’ problems into perspective.
Peoria pitcher Julio Castillo was arrested following a brawl in Peoria’s game Thursday night with Dayton after he fired a ball toward the Dayton dugout. Said ball skipped off of the dugout and injured a fan, who had to be taken to the hospital.
Castillo now faces felony charges that not only put his career in serious jeopardy, but probably his ability to remain in the United States.
Here’s amateur video of the brawl, the ball-throwing incident occurs right around 0:24 (my apologies for some off-color language ...
Sweet Uncle Lou’s Friday Roundup: The “Do Brewers Fans Realize They’re Still in Second?” Edition
Hire Jim Essian —
Just curious. Do people in Wisconsin know how standings work? Are they aware that we’ve been in first since May 11th, and they haven’t been in first since April 8th? Are they aware that we were without our starting left fielder, who has performed equally as well as Ryan Braun, for about two months? Do they know that if they’re going to start talking shit, they should maybe actually PASS us first? Ah, well. Fuck those cheeseheads. Anyhow, here’s the Roundup:
Thanks to Flem for pointing out this fantastic Onion article which explains why the Brewers aren’t going ...
Albert Belle approves of this brawl
Your Face is a Sports Blog —
Tickets for you, your wife and two kids to a minor-league baseball game: $40.Hot dogs, soda and popcorn for family: $35.Getting drilled with a baseball thrown at 90 mph by a pissed off pitcher trying...
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More home video fan pics of the Peoria Chiefs vs. Dayton Dragons fight.
Clubhouse Cancer —
Not quite sure what the now-charged-with-a-felony pitcher Castillo was thinking. ...
MMA Is Too Violent? [Video]
MMA HQ - Mixed Martial Arts News and Analysis —
Critics love to bash Mixed Martial Arts and say the sport is too violent and the only people that enjoy it are blood-thirsty, backwoods wackos.
Really? Hope none of those critics ever watch baseball. Looks like the fans at last nights Dayton Dragons vs Peoria Chiefs game were completely appalled at the fisticuffs. ...
Julio Castillo and the “wild pitch”
Wax Heaven —
By now just about everyone has seen this crazy Minor League brawl between the Peoria Chiefs and the Dayton Dragons. After things died down, Chiefs pitcher Julio Castillo was picked up by the police and arrested for felonious assault, held on $50,000 dollars bond, and ordered to surrender his Visa. You see, Castillo is a ...
Update: Peoria Chiefs, Dayton Dragons, Ryne Sandberg, Desi Wilson and Playing for Peanuts?
Playing for Peanuts Blog —
Last week, I posted the video of a brawl between the Peoria Chiefs and Dayton Dragons. The video and the story of the brawl was major news - it was all over the news networks and sports blogs for 24 hours: And now I have found out that the story has a tie-in to "Playing for Peanuts." When Peoria Chiefs manager Carmelo Martinez - who was filling in for Ryne Sandberg - was suspended for his actions in the brawl, hitting coach Desi Wilson took over as ...
Bennigan’s Shuts Its Doors, Cubs Fans Take It Out On Whoever They Can
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
“Play nice, gentlemen,” reads the note from a concerned GC addressed to Ben Schwartz and myself in the wake of the latest Cubs fan assault on class and decorum, a beatdown which reportedly cost outnumbered White Sox fan Robert Steele his eye. But as Ghandi once observed, “An eye for an eye and soon the whole world is blind, and a tooth for a tooth explains Ronnie Woo-Woo.”
The CSTB honcho needn’t worry. We can, in fact, just all get along. I haven’t met Ben yet, but I doubt he’s a violent racist shitbag hedge fund manager, despite championing the red, white and blue as he does. And I’m no ...
Cubs Prospect Indicted On Felony Counts
FanHouse —
Filed under: MLB Police Blotter You probably remember the crazy fight above. You know, the one where Cubs prospect Julio Castillo decided to whip a baseball at the opposing dugout and instead struck a fan in the head. Smart thinking, Julio! For his trouble, he's been indicted on two felony counts: felonious assault with a deadly weapon, and felonious assault causing serious physical harm. That's not really all that surprising. I mean, dude semi-intentionally hit a fan in the head with a baseball. What is surprising is that Castillo remains the Cubs organization. For ...
Will Poor Control Keep Former Cub Farmhand Out of Jail?
The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog —
Former Peoria Chiefs pitcher Julio Castillo pleaded not guily to two charges of felonious assault Wednesday morning in an Ohio courtroom. Castillo was part of that huge on-field brawl between the Chiefs and the Dayton Dragons this past July 24th, at one point firing a ball toward the Dayton dugout, only to have it sail over his target and hit a fan in the head. Castillo's apparent defense is that he never intended to hit the fan, who got a free concussion just for attending the game. Castillo faces up to 16 years in prison and a $30,000 fine if convicted.
Disgusting and idiotic...but feel free to enjoy it all over again. ...
Baseball Brawl Trial Serves As Reminder of Awesome Brawl
TheScore.com Blog —
The Online Sports Guys have done well to bring to our attention the fact that a trial began yesterday in Dayton that takes us back to a simpler time, a richer time, a brawlier time… 2008.
Let’s go straight to some hot Wikipedia action:
On July 24, 2008 the Dayton Dragons and Peoria Chiefs were involved in a brawl at Fifth Third Field. The game had gotten heated after multiple players were hit by pitches. Dragons' manager Donnie Scott complained to the home plate umpire. Chiefs interim manager Carmelo Martínez came out and the two managers were yelling at each other. When Martinez pushed Scott the ...
