Saturday, May 27, 2006

Barrett Suspended, Pierzinski Fined for Base-brawl


Cubs catcher Michael Barrett is suspended for 10 games while Sox outfielder Brian Anderson is out for five games after last Saturday's bench-clearing brawl at U.S. Cellular Field. Sox third-base coach Joey Cora was suspended two games -- I'm not clear why -- and A. J. Pierzinski was fined, but not suspended.

In all my years of watching the two Chicago baseball teams play each other, I have never seen anything like this. Usually the brawls happen in the crowd among Cubs and Sox fans. It'll be fun to see what happens betweent these two teams when they face each other in a rematch at the end of June.

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