Former Main League Baseball star Yasiel Puig discovered himself in the course of a large brawl throughout a Venezuelan Skilled Baseball League this week.
Puig, who performs for Tiburones de La Guaira, was concerned in a bench-clearing brawl between his workforce and Cardenales de Lara, in keeping with the New York Submit.
Tiburones de la Guaira’s Cuban baseball participant Yasiel Puig watches the Venezuelan Baseball League sport between Leones del Caracas and Tiburones de la Guaira on the Simon Bolivar Monumental Stadium in Caracas, on January 7, 2024. (FEDERICO PARRA/AFP through Getty Photos)
Tiburones participant Maikel Garcia launched a two-run go-ahead house run within the eighth inning to take a 10-8 lead.
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Video of the sport exhibits Garcia rounding third base and having phrases with the Cardenales bench, earlier than slowing right down to a stroll as he was greeted by his teammates at house plate.
Each benches cleared, and the 2 groups squared off on the sphere. Puig could be seen jawing with a number of opposing gamers earlier than a Cardenales participant wildly swings at him. Puig then expenses the participant, with each groups exchanging punches.
Puig took to social media to specific disappointment with how his involvement within the brawl was portrayed within the media, saying he had tried to “hold everybody calm and from nowhere I get hit in head.”
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Tiburones de la Guaira’s Cuban baseball participant Yasiel Puig throws the ball throughout the Venezuelan Baseball League sport between Leones del Caracas and Tiburones de la Guaira on the Simon Bolivar Monumental Stadium in Caracas, on January 7, 2024. (FEDERICO PARRA/AFP through Getty Photos)
Puig’s agent additionally posted to X to clarify that Puig had been making an attempt to “hold the peace.”
“Sadly, the American media chooses to as soon as once more share misinformation. [Yasiel Puig] was really holding the peace yesterday when he was sucker punched by a participant from the opposite workforce. I’ve launched a number of movies on my feed that present what occurred,” Lisette Carnet wrote.
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Yasiel Puig, #66 of the Cleveland Indians, returns to the dugout after fielding throughout the eighth inning in opposition to the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on September 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Scott Taetsch/Getty Photos)
“It’s unlucky we’ve got turn into any such society that when the reality doesn’t match our thirst, we simply change the ‘clickbait’ to swimsuit. Puig is ok btw- he was not sanctioned as a result of he was a sufferer yesterday- and at the moment he hit a 2 run HR & is now 1 sport away from a championship.”
Carnet posted a clip of the opposing participant swinging at Puig.
In accordance with the field rating, no gamers had been ejected because of the brawl.
Puig final performed in MLB throughout the 2019 season, showing in 49 video games for the Cleveland Guardians and hitting .297.
