And The Benches Clear: 1993

Bench clearing incidents during the 1993 MLB Season.
Clips courtesy of SW561

[@ECG3485]

Just hearing Dan Patrick's, Chris Berman's and Linda Cohn's descriptions of these brawls is nostalgia enough

[@danielmitchell6231]

Ahh...back when Sportscenter was actually good! Days gone by 😔.

[@scottbrown7497]

Back when ESPN as a whole only cared about sports but yes they we're normal back then

[@MrBklynboy1]

I miss those days. No woke politics, no social justice warrior bs. Just two anchors cracking jokes and doing highlights.

[@ZachGood]

If that Ryan/Ventura brawl happened now, ESPN would have 19 hours of programming dedicated to two people yelling back and forth about it. Pardon The Cold Pizza Hot Take

[@leifopstad2972]

@@MrBklynboy1 it's not even the politics side of things. It's literally just way too many talking heads

[@BuccaneerBruce]

​@@MrBklynboy1 Much better than Fox news and the anchors that have the IQ's of trashcan lids.

[@jerrylamontjamison]

I love Chris Berman! "It's only gone 15 minutes we need to go 20"

[@JosephRVilla]

Same here at 3:28.

[@peterf.229]

norm charlton was the toughest mlb pitcher . later in his career for the phillies he took a liner to the face and kept shaking off the catcher who was concerned since he was bleeding heavily lol

[@packerhawk24]

LOL at 4:30 you hear Vin Scully moaning "Here we go again, oh, no!" in the background

[@conorgilles81]

93' was a great year for MLB brawls. Some all-time classics in there.

[@Williams3Miller31]

This is the greatest year of MLB brawls. That classic Mariners/Orioles brawl, McRae going after the manager instead of the pitcher, Nolan Ryan giving Ventura the works, the classic Mo Vaughn hit, Jim Leyland being absolutely unhinged, and that Oakland/Milwaukee brawl. Amazing!

[@anthonydavella8350]

Roid rage lol

[@naswiipp]

5:51 Robin Ventura sets a MLB record for getting hit 7 times in one at bat.

[@jacobrichardson1952]

As an old soul person for 1993, yo these brawls are bloodbath hilarious 30 years later still like this 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 WOW!!!!

[@jacobrichardson1952]

Wow no likes? That's disrespectful.

[@robertjimenez7285]

"BOTH BONDS AND HIS FATHER EJECTED" haha, crazy fights! I've been binge watching all these lately! Great stuff!

[@jfinns13]

It’s getting out of hand

[@naswiipp]

Is spelled "injected"

[@niteporter]

I thought you meant to type injected my fault lol 😂

[@user-qr5hp4ok3e]

That brawl between the Orioles and Mariners almost ended Cal Ripkens iron man streak.

[@lemmiwinks09]

I love that McRae went for the manager instead of the pitcher following orders. You don’t see good brawls like this anymore.

[@peterf.229]

he’s as insane as Amir Garrett vs whole pirates bench lol

[@CopperNic1972]

I love the Chris Berman take on the Orioles/Seattle brawl. He's funny!!

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Daryl Strawberry was involved in every brawl in the eighties and nineties..You can even see him in the background of the Nolan Ryan- Robin Ventura duel

[@gsandoval1972]

I remember the dodgers rockies game.. strawberry came out in a towel in one of multiple times the benches cleared that game

[@Shinobi33]

Bad back and all

[@kchereicome9492]

"Cocaine is a hell of a drug" .

[@kevinstull8552]

Strawberry was always high on Coke during those decades, hence the reason why he was always involved in all those fights 😂.

[@Fakename70]

Pretty sure he was in on the Dr. J-Larry Bird tilt, too.

[@traviscoates6878]

Sportscenter in the 90’s was the BEST! Berman, Patrick, Olberman, Etc...

[@warrenaboudoinjr.2258]

It was the NFL in MLB 1993!

[@andrewtm85]

"Jeff Nelson throws a full nelson..."🤣

[@daniidnites]

Nolan - Ventura's brawl Is an instant Classic.

[@andrewsheehy9938]

If that Mariners-Orioles Brawl happened today, players would be in jail and there would be some 20 Game Suspensions handed out.

[@retrostu6917]

That was a wild one that day, I was there, and it took what seemed forever to get the game going again.

[@kevinmiller6380]

@@retrostu6917 That's nothing compared to the Pacers/Pistons brawl November 19th, 2004, the infamous Malice At The Palace.

[@retrostu6917]

@@kevinmiller6380 agreed, I was deployed for that one. Had to catch it few days after.

[@williammorrison6228]

Pussified generation now...this is back when boys would be boys and no skip Bayless or Steven a to over dramatize and race bait everything....

[@kevinstull8552]

The Padres-Braves brawl in the 80s was even more crazier.

[@JillC2]

It doesn't show it, but the Ryan/Ventura fight also featured Geno Petralli biting Bo Jackson - and Frank Thomas couldn't believe it.

[@FrankLucas81682]

Robin Ventura was like damn I fucked up 🤣🤣

[@paulvece3714]

I feel like if I ever hit the lottery, I'm gonna retire and spend my days just watching Nolan punching Ventura on a consecutive loop lol. That shit never gets old

[@Whit_Siever]

Q: What forever famous brawl happened in 1993? A: Yes

[@brianschaffer9220]

Damn, there was a lot of good brawls in 1993!!

[@kevinstull8552]

Mo Vaughn laying out Albert Belle with that tackle never stops being funny 😂.

[@jeremy28135]

I miss the Charlie Stiener, Dan Patrick days

[@AS_Gringo]

Alan Mills is a beast, just ask Strawberry’s jaw.

[@kevinmiller6380]

I went to a fight, and a baseball game broke out. 😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@thechairwithjamesgonzales]

Loving these!

[@InMotionForAMillion]

Brian McRae runs directly to the opposing team's dugout, where he's outnumbered 25-to-1...LOL...

[@BuccaneerBruce]

He was a hot head.

[@allstarchris1]

You're missing the Mets/Padres brawl from April at Shea.

[@BenDover-vs7ih]

If you want more view baseball need to have more brawls. Man I love baseball fights. All out dudes swinging every which way.

[@StonewallTitlow]

Seems like the 90s were prime time for brawls in baseball.

[@a.einstein9432]

It's the players pulling people off that are taken as attacking so they get jumped on, wave after wave. I feel sorry for that six year old at his first MLB game.

[@kevinjohnson-lf3kj]

I miss Mack E Sasser..One of the Greatest Names in MLB History

[@warrenboudoinjr7900]

It was my Junior Year at East St. John that I became a all purpose student and I got my very first Regular PE class and my uniform in the process that I started the two year run from Least St.John to West St. John remember I went the distance three years in a row from Least St. John to a winner at West St. John in 1993.

[@Nighthawke70]

Chi/Texas Ventura/Ryan round up, classic. The interesting part was when Bo got involved. From Ryan:" I was at the bottom of the pile and getting pressed down pretty hard. I couldn't breathe! Then two massive hands grabbed me by my jersey and hoisted me clear of the mess. It was Bo Jackson who saved me from being badly hurt. A great guy, we keep in touch to this day."

[@caras2004]

Robin Ventura getting owned by Nolan Ryan never gets old

[@perry_carrey8327]

No one deserved it more!

[@kevinmiller6380]

@@perry_carrey8327 What was Ventura thinking, anyway? He didn't stand a chance.

[@johnbell252]

Nolan Ryan connected with 6 punches. Why wasn't he ejected?

[@JillC2]

They didn't show Bo Jackson getting bit by the Rangers' catcher.

[@kevinstull8552]

To be fair, Ryan should have definitely been thrown out of the game, but I'm sure the bias umpires and MLB wouldn't have gone through with it.

[@ExtremeMedium]

1:27 when the fight is so good, the announcer speaks in autotune

[@user-ex6nk8on8g]

What I love about baseball fights is the long run to the pitcher's mound. I would be tired. The pitcher has the advantage of just standing there 😂

[@maynardsmoreland]

5:55 The all-time classic.

[@jonsquirrel3661]

"Exchanging dinner reservation plans"😂😂😂

[@jonnydanger7181]

I don’t understand why a lot of pitchers just stand there defenseless when getting charged at full speed. They act like theyre not scared then always get their azz handed to them lol

[@Tsagia]

"Exchanging...dinner reservation plans"

[@paulhoelschen5319]

I was at the George Bell Aaron Sele game in 1993.

[@manuginobilisbaldspot424]

Yankees fans, classy as never.

[@JillC2]

Not as bad as Phillies fans (y'know the ones that deliberately vomit on children and punch police horses.)

[@warrenaboudoinjr.2258]

After I came from a losing school, I joined Danielle at West St John as a winner and I went to the distance as a Senior in my home school after 3 years at East St. John and two years in a row in the video yearbook too.

[@travisp5747]

Wtf you talking about

[@ACWerling]

3:20 "Finally, out of the stands come the gendarme." When ESPN was fun.

[@JohnMegaton2062]

It’s a punk move to come up behind a guy and choke him in a pile, Jeff Nelson. Yeah we all saw it. Might as well bite and scratch while you’re at it. That deserves a stomping.

[@kinger982]

You apparently saw Tackett, the catcher for the Baltimore Orioles back then getting the bleeding stopped by the cut man aka the head trainer of the team

[@FromTheHipp]

make a playlist of these lol

[@bryantfarrell2488]

Albert Belle was a manic!

[@ColbyePresents]

*Someone got tickled by the Jaime joke :)*

[@andrewyoung2796]

Charged the manager?

[@niteporter]

The good old days. No internet, people weren't offended by sport teams names, college football was fun, music was better.

[@fhotzel]

Is it just me are are most of the brawls AL teams?

[@kevinfinnerty8414]

I would not want to see a roided up, raging Albert Belle running towards me.

[@tomy5868]

pitchers always run away after punking out and throwing at someone.

[@VintageOnline100]

You think Acuna goes through all histrionics back then? Not a chance.

[@GoHeels2024]

Surhoff stayed getting beat up in brawls lol

[@danalawton2986]

Love Baseball!

[@Seemsayin]

Why would anyone charge the mound to literally HUG the guy that just corked him with a 96MPH fastball? I guess some guys are not touchy-feely, as Ryan immediately obliges with 6-straight head shots. Classic.

[@humbertocolon5403]

I didn't know that.

[@ryanabey4655]

Got booming into echuther

[@BBB-Schmuck]

1:29. Played didn't have a number on his jersey?

[@davidmeredith4561]

I wanna get ejected from a game with my Dad.

[@stephaniemalley5162]

Nolan Ryan!!!

[@jfinns13]

Hey, if you find one better than this one, you better let me know.

[@michaelfalkner1186]

Umpires needed to call some of these games. 20 minute brawl? Let the league decide who forfeits at that point. Call the fucking game.

[@sacredwolf2012]

It's funny at 3:43. 😂

[@smudent2010]

8:36 lol he didn't change at all, first thing he tried to do when he was on the ground was kick with spikes again like a bish

[@travisp5747]

The last one was a curveball.

[@kevinolivas8075]

So how come they wore their stirrups so low back then? It looks so ... so ... non-Major League. They should have pulled their stirrups up. Might have lightened their attitudes. And ... you know ... less rage-induced fighting that way. Barry Bonds appears so infuriated in one of those clips that it looks like his eyebrows are about to rocket right off of his head and into the 3rd row of box seats.

[@MightyGreedo]

6:13 "Gonna grab a skier when he brands him, right?"

[@JillC2]

It was steer - a castrated bull. It was a joke about Nolan Ryan being Texan.

[@MightyGreedo]

@@JillC2 Ah! Got it now. Thanks.

[@williammorrison6228]

No one wanted any part of Albert Belle

[@kevinstull8552]

Except for Mo Vaughn 😂.

[@williammorrison6228]

@@kevinstull8552 that was a big dude...just ask the budweiser logo at Shea stadium

[@pisspratt9002]

7:31 highly unnecessary lol

[@naswiipp]

The White Sux stay getting beat up!!!

[@user-hf9uz8bj7c]

まぁ、勝負事には アクシデントはつきものだが、故意にやっているのと、不覚なものは見ていて分かる。確かに頭部への悪球は命に関わることがあるので、バッターが怒るのも無理はない。わたしも若い頃、目にボールを受けたことがあるが、わたしの場合その場で気を失なった見たいで、後でピッチャーが詫びに来たが、ましてやプロの球は百何十キロで打者に飛んで来る。避ける暇がない。故に、打者が怒るのも無理はないと思う。

[@justtony21]

Linda Cohn after all these years has just been insufferable. Goodness this lady had been bad all these years. The first to make ESPN unwatchable

[@christophermclean3921]

Beaned- one in the head HBP- hit by pitch And, don’t managers look like spoiled crybabies kicking the dirt?

[@actsismmljcorrectlyobeyed6190]

Joey was always a child.

[@patskers1]

How was Nolan Ryan not ejected for that lol?

[@javtimestwo]

Is it just me or do most of these pitches appear to be barely touching 90 mph? These days majority if pitchers are touching 95 and maybe topping out at 99 mph. Those beanballs today hurt a lot more. P.S. LaRussa, look at him leading his steroided A's teams from the 90's. HYPOCRITE!

[@obiwon76]

Why does some of the footage from 29 years ago seem like it’s from 60 years ago.

[@franc587]

Jee let these poor guys beat each other for God's sake. Stop interrupting

[@warrenboudoinjr2972]

i didn't have to tell you i was in the East St. John Video Yearbook for two years in a row before i transferred to West St. John!

[@SMOKINJOE2898]

Nothing worse than baseball player’s who can’t even connect with a punch.😂🤣

[@GregoryWeagle]

Robin Ventura is the dumbest charger of the mound ever. Nolan should have given him a couple of noogies just to make Robin look like a bigger dork. And I agree that Nolan should have been thrown out of the game even if what he did was self-defense. He started it with the bean ball.

[@Mr.SalmaHayek]

lol

[@glennwetherbee4495]

Lot of roids in the 90’s

[@windwhipped5]

Id like to see a 10 game suspension today for a bean ball at the head. The batter gets hospitalized for it the pitcher gets charged with assault beginning in 2023 season..thatll stop the intentionals..

[@ashedwards1311]

Who are the Indians?

[@joejordan1259]

Chris Berman what an irritating announcer .