The Rays aren’t making many friends this season.
After getting into a brawl in March against the Blue Jays, they found themselves throwing down with the Brewers on Tuesday night in Milwaukee.
The fight occurred in the eighth inning, with the Brewers up 8-2 over the Rays when Jose Siri grounded out.Â
That’s when Milwaukee pitcher Abner Uribe and Siri started to jaw at one another, leading to the two confronting each other before Uribe threw a nasty right hook that sent Siri’s head back.Â
Siri tried to swing back but missed, forcing first base umpire Alex MacKay, who was trying to move him away, to duck and take cover.Â
Milwaukee’s Rhys Hoskins then pushed Siri away in an attempt to protect his pitcher.
Some more punches were thrown, and the benches and bullpens cleared as fans at American Family Field roared from the stands.Â
Uribe and Siri were eventually separated and hauled off the field by their respective teams.
Both Uribe and Siri were ejected from the ballgame along with Brewers manager Pat Murphy and pitcher Freddy Peralta.
It was not immediately clear what led to the fight in the first place between Uribe and Siri.Â
The Brewers ended up taking the game 8-2 in the end.
Tampa has now logged its second bench-clearing brawl in the last two months after there was a scuffle between Rays infielder José Caballero and Blue Jays pitcher Génesis Cabrera at the start of the season.Â
During that incident, the two came together and exchanged words after Caballero was tagged for the final out of the bottom of the seventh inning.Â
Cabrera eventually shoved Caballero, and the benches came spilling out.
However, no punches were thrown during that particular altercation.
