June 5, 2008

Coco Crisp was hit on the right hip by James Shields, prompting a benches-clearing brawl. Crisp dropped his bat, charged the mound, ducked a wild right by Shields before throwing a few punches that may have grazed Shields before being tackled to the ground by catcher Dioner Navarro. The tempers carried over from an earlier game, when Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said Crisp's slide "intentionally" tried to hurt somebody. Eight players received suspensions for the roles in the melee.