The 2024 Major League Baseball season is just a few days old, the the league has already experienced its second bench-clearing incident in as many days.
Emotions ran high late in Saturday's game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays. Blue Jays pitcher Génesis Cabrera got into a heated verbal exchange with Rays infielder José Caballero at the end of the seventh inning. The three-day-old Major League Baseball season has now seen two scuffles over the past two days.
Cabrera, who was backing up third base, and Caballero came together as the play concluded and exchanged words. The confrontation ensued, although no punches were thrown. Cabrera was eventually ejected. saw the ball in the bullpen and started running. The coach is waving at me to go to third. When I got to third, I see Bichette had the ball already, so I gave myself up. I’m kind of slowing down and Cabrera comes out of nowhere and kind of tags me. But there’s no play, I’m already out,' Caballero said. 'I just asked him, why did you push me? He didn’t say a word. He just came up to me and pushed me again.
Blue Jays manager John Schneider agreed. 'It was handled really well by everyone, umpires and Tampa, and us,' Schneider said. 'It was kind of just one of those things where it just kind of happened and they issued warnings and everyone was fine with that.' The Associated Press contributed to this report. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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