{"id":11978,"date":"2011-11-07T04:47:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T04:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=11978"},"modified":"2011-11-05T04:48:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T04:48:24","slug":"top-5-baseball-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/top-5-baseball-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Baseball Fights"},"content":{"rendered":"
Baseball by its very nature is a passive sport. There isn\u2019t much in the way of pounding and thumping going on in the day to day aspects of the game. That\u2019s why, when there is a fight, it\u2019s usually very entertaining, mostly because the players are really, really bad at fighting. Here are the top 5 baseball fights of the modern era.<\/p>\n
5. Chan Ho Park Karate Kicks Tim Belcher<\/strong><\/p>\n June 5th, 1999. An interleague game between the Angels and Dodgers got interesting when the two pitchers got into it on the basepaths. Chan Ho Park, the Dodgers\u2019 starting pitcher, took offense to the way Angels pitcher Tim Belcher tagged him after Park hit a ground ball. It started much like any other baseball fight, until Park took things up a notch.<\/p>\n