On a night where ... the Red Sox as a team rush the mound because a rookie relief pitcher threw behind a batter?! WTF?!.
Highly unusual behavior for the franchised that once had as its motto, "twenty-five guys, twenty five cabs".
I remember back in the late 1980s, a beaning incident led to the dugouts emptying and someone who was in the Red Sox bullpen - I think it was Mike Greenwell, so he must have had the day off - jumped over the wall and ran half way to the scrum, then looked over his shoulder and saw that no one was following him.
Beckett needs to STFU....
When I saw Beckett mouthing off, it reminded me of when Bill Lee got his arm dislocated in a brawl with the Yankees in the late 1970s.
I saw him trying to start something behind the protection of several players and coaches.
Like Mickey Rivers did in the Bill Lee brawl. Ken Harrelson was one of the Red Sox announcers and he was yelling, "Look at Mickey RIvers. He's just running around suckerpunching people!"
I didn't read this myself, but someone told me that in Jim Bouton's first book, he said he had arranged to have a designated hugger on each team, so if the dugouts ever emptied, they would find and engage each other so they would look like they were part of the fight without risking getting injured.
I also remember the fight between Joe Pepitone and Rico Petrocelli, because they looked like mirror images of each other. Sort of a John Calipari/Rick Pitino resemblance.
