And The Benches Clear: 2015

Notable bench-clearing incidents during the 2015 MLB season
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[@ckendall67]

I'll always remember the 2015 Kansas City Royals...not just for winning the World Series, not just for the ALCS vs the Blue Jays, but for the amount of bench-clearing melees they were involved in that whole season. They literally kept pi$$ing people off every other week with their antics. The late Yordano Ventura, god rest his soul, was definitely in the middle of a lot of these confrontations Lol. The Royals, mind you now, they had a heck of a team in 2015 and topped it off with their World Series championship. But they sure did they leave their mark on baseball that year, not just for their championship season, but for their series of on-field melees with just about every other team they played that season.

[@michaelfalkner1186]

That was how they won the title.

[@aidanmiranda6140]

It was literally all because of Ventura

[@lakeeriesailor2852]

Brought their team closer

[@lorddalek]

2015 KC Royals -- punching and kicking their way to a WS Ring.

[@BuccaneerBruce]

The teams that picked those fights with the Royals had gotten used to beating and bullying the Royals, once the tables were turned they cried like babies.

[@lorddalek]

@@BuccaneerBruce Probably would have charged mound at Madbum in every inning if they'd played the Giants that year.

[@23jakesmith23]

It's really just shitty Yordano Ventura being a moron for most of them

[@Rarrlow]

Sounds like someone’s salty we won that year. lol Cry about it. #TogetherRoyal

[@lorddalek]

@@Rarrlow Yeah no I'm a Giants fan. Now point to the part of the doll where Madison Bumgarner touched you.

[@reinholdsklinefelter3879]

The best baseball fight ever took place in 1988 at the end of "The Naked Gun".

[@ColbyePresents]

*Hell yeah best series on KZbin right now!*

[@chachmon5180]

This one should have been called the ventura chronicles

[@thedragonzord_]

Ventura was the worst. Dude thought he was 6'6 and 300 pounds

[@nseifner]

He never once backed down. 🤷‍♂️

[@thedragonzord_]

@@nseifner the fuck he didn't. He always waited for his bigger team mates to hold him back. Good riddance to that small little boy

[@nseifner]

@@thedragonzord_ 🤣 you a Sox or Jays fan you seem hella salty.

[@thedragonzord_]

@@nseifner I'm a Giants fan. You the know, the team that he couldn't beat. So, not salty at all. Got a championship from them.

[@nseifner]

@@thedragonzord_ ah yes I am the one that is salty here. DAMN you Mad Bum. 🤣

[@LEFTBEHINDTIMES]

I been binging the crap out of these. Good stuff

[@zach7193]

I think it's the best channel for benches clear.

[@vaughnmild7563]

Good stuff! I remember watching the Chi Sox-KC game live.

[@teacheraaron26]

Ventura was the Nyjer Morgan of pitchers

[@SgtHolton]

Let's be fair to Nyjer, at least he knows how to wear a seat-belt.

[@LebronKobe]

Love these baseball brawls ,keep uploading please

[@bottomlesspit92]

I’ve always wondered why don’t the bullpens just duke it out back there like if I’m a relief pitcher I’d trip the shit out the bullpen heading toward the main group 😂 but that’s just me

[@HistoricWrath]

RIP Yordano Ventura. What you lacked in discretion you made up with velocity ;) Good memories for this KC fan.

[@esinger23]

I always find bench clearing brawls entertaining lmao

[@bigjohn2073]

Ventura was killed in a car accident Jan. 22, 2017 in the Dominican Republic. It's too bad, he had a promising career as a Pitcher in the Royals Organiztion. He was only 25 year's old.

[@beardown-ej7rn]

He was a dirty ass player who cares

[@23jakesmith23]

He was a dipshit who was more known for threatening batters with a 90+ mph pitch to their heads

[@jebjebson8743]

Ventura such a clown

[@Minforsale]

The bullpens running out to do nothing is the best

[@nseifner]

The hate for Ventura in the comments is great. He's one of my fav Royals of all time. I still got a gold Ventura jersey. RIP Ace

[@dakotakirk6842]

Great 2 years of being a royals fan

[@SammyMac19]

The one thing no one ever seems to talk about is the obvious fact that Yordano Ventura simply got emotionally charged by comebackers to the mound. I'm a Tigers fan not a Royals fan, and I'm not defending him. But that always gets left out. The benches clearing with the White Sox was because of a comebacker to the mound. Him jawing with Mike Trout was because when Trout got a base hit prior to scoring, it was a scorched base hit back up the middle. Almost all issues involving Ventura were because of a rocket back towards the mound, which of course isn't of any fault towards the batter. They take what they can get. But some sort of self defense mechanism came alive every time someone hit one back towards Ventura. He even does a little flash play on a comebacker in Game 6 of the 2014 World Series. He was never calm about them.

[@BenDover-vs7ih]

Dude was such a moron. I wished someone cleaned his clock. I remember that incident with Trout. Trout was like what are you doing. Ventura was such a POS.

[@aaronaguilar9172]

that’s the fastest i’ve seen pujols run

[@MoreBuffMoreMuff]

Besides from his marriage

[@josephcoburn9250]

Let me at em hold me back HOLD ME BACK!

[@markdaugherty6318]

Yordano Ventura in middle of everything. That happens

[@eddiepickens5639]

i love how the royals were a part of every brawl

[@transitfan954]

Much of that was due to Ventura (may he rest in peace)

[@timrobinson7373]

I know this is a mean cruel thing to say but I am sorry for Ventura's family on losing him but as a pitcher he was a prick with a rotten attitude

[@vaughnmild7563]

Agreed... He was punk

[@guitarlover80]

🎯

[@brennanbarnes7628]

100% agreed. He was a consistent aggressor & coward, a tough combo that I imagine made him difficult to like within his own team. Still, awful break for him & his family as we'll never know if he'd have turned it around.

[@jayseaborg3895]

@@brennanbarnes7628 Watch how slowly his infield came to his support after he plunked Machado in Baltimore. Catchers always try to wrestle hitters to the ground when they charge the mound but the KC catcher clearly was willing to let Machado get one good punch in before he would step in to stop things. Machado nailed him fairly solidly, though those two fighting is really two punks going after each other.

[@vaughnmild7563]

Little Man Syndrome

[@TheProcrastinatorPro4638]

Hey 5 of these were just Kansas City

[@slyjokerg]

It always cracks me up when the bullpens run out to the diamond. What a waste. You are just going to match up with guys from the other team anyway. Why do all that running? Just face off with the other team's bullpen and don't waste all of that time, running, and energy.

[@miniDrew4]

Lol the entire first half of the video is the Royals.

[@kevinmiller6380]

The vast majority of these fights involve Yordano Ventura. Maybe he's related to Robin (fight with Nolan Ryan, 1993). Might've been Ventura's sendoff to Ryan as he retired after the season.

[@obscurereference6298]

There's a reason why assholes like Ventura and Fernandez act like children then get themselves killed. Almost like you need to grow up to survive in the real world.

[@jjfann48]

I miss Ventura. Everytime he pitched you knew at some point there was a chance a brawl could eventually break out

[@23skidoo46]

it's the only thing the Pirates and Reds are good at. They get a lot of practice at it.

[@nickferraris9143]

Seems to me that Ventura was in the middle of almost every single incident involving the Royals in this compilation. Guess he was having a tough year mentally and felt the best way to work through it was to throw at hitters and talk shit. Wouldn’t be my way of handling it but we all gotta do something.

[@glennmills8941]

Ventura was the biggest 150 pound coward pseudo tough guy ever to pitch in the Bigs. Took his cue from big mouth no bite Volquez.

[@Lilgucc63]

very entertaining videos. thank you

[@DNSKansas]

Yordano Ventura was pure thug

[@stevent4955]

R.I.P. Yordano Ventura

[@goetia13]

The bullpens running in has to be one of the goofiest parts of MLB fights

[@GrantCameron37]

If you want to see a bloody rivalry explode type Good Friday massacre and enjoy.

[@MoreBuffMoreMuff]

Wondering where Fernando Rodney or Pedro Strop are? Just look for the sideways hat

[@tomitstube]

i remember the last one in the alds between toronto and texas, texas melted down on defense in the 7th, 3 errors and another bad choice defensively if i remember right, then bautista hit the home run that sealed the series, and his way-over-the-top reaction, what i don't remember is the crowd chanting, "fuck you texas". rougned odor would sucker punch bautista the next year at 2nd base.

[@transitfan954]

I blame then-manager Jeff Banister for some of that. The man was an asshole

[@transitfan954]

I blame some of that on then-Texas manager Jeff Banister. The man was a dick. Hopefully, he doesn't get another managerial job, but he's currently the bench coach for the Diamondbacks, and bench coach is generally a steppingstone, especially when you have some managerial experience.

[@repentandknowjesus8674]

If a pitcher acts like he threw at a batter on purpose, warning or not, he needs to go to the showers.

[@repentandknowjesus8674]

Players need to put their egos in the back pocket when you are in that stadium.

[@beegpink-johnson6344]

Nice vids man

[@ivancervantes4888]

Little kids fighting for everything

[@chriscalvert8023]

Bautista thought he was a bad ass, didn't he? Lol of course, we would find out later that he wasn't. Lol

[@ckendall67]

He was and STILL is. And that Odor fella literally has nothing ELSE for his career to be remembered by.

[@rn55884]

What I learned from this video: Ventura =🤡

[@questtech7148]

Alright boys Ying Yang formation..

[@jeffgessner9764]

Ventura and Pedro. 2 of the skinniest punks to ever step on a mound.

[@mikecarnovale3370]

Forgot what a bunch of clowns Ventura and the Royals were. They would be the 4th team from my previous comment.

[@Spencer3712]

Those clowns won the series that year so they were doing something right.

[@freedomring3022]

lets face it.. KC fans only get to route for their team once every few decades ... let em have 2015

[@transitfan954]

I'll be looking for them in the 2045 World Series 😂 (if I'm still alive)

[@VKDM8687]

Can't STAND Ventura! Is he still playing?

[@unclegold709]

He's dead...

[@HistoricWrath]

He died in a car wreck

[@dakotakirk6842]

Do yourself a favor and delete this

[@ckendall67]

No, he died tragically in a car accident in January of 2017. Even though as a Jays fan he sometimes got on my nerves it still shocked me when I found out he died.

[@t206kid]

I know Ventura died tragically, but you have to admit he was nothing but a punk on the field

[@davidvega3678]

Ventura was just plain stupid !

[@devonmartinez780]

Home announcers acting like pitchers who bean guys OBVIOUSLY don't deserve the gate 😂😂😂

[@Peppyroni247]

1:10 biased commentate much?

[@ronveri2838]

Ventura is a dork

[@mizillich8228]

These guy are spoiled over paid little kids.

[@devonmartinez780]

They obviously did the right thing by throwing Ventura out 😂

[@fredleinweber2819]

How hilariously ironic that the eventual world series champions were a part of more than half the bench clearing incidents.

[@warrenaboudoinjr.2258]

I wasn't supposed to happen like that.

[@TheBatugan77]

Funny how in football, where guys are smashing the shit out of each othet for 3 hours, a ref can make everybody behave by flinging a little yellow hankerchief on the ground.

[@GregoryWeagle]

Usually anyway.

[@princeofdarknessxyz1]

Red vs Blue

[@wafflekingdom5620]

Royals just loved fighting didn’t they? Funny bc the other teams didn’t do anything to anger them

[@TheBatugan77]

That asshat on the mound. Half the Royals probably wanted a piece of him too.

[@vaughnmild7563]

@@TheBatugan77 Agreed. Couldn't stand that little fu**er

[@barbarian981]

Looks like Blake Griffin at 1.05.

[@sjtom57]

Oh look, it's the 2015 version of the shoving and pushing of girly men.

[@alblar7904]

pushing and shoving