The sport of baseball can get pretty heated sometimes. Being a sport played in warmer weather, it seems the heat and stress of the game can get under people’s skin sometimes. There have been many incidents in the professional aspect of the sport where coaches and umpires can be seen having an all-out screaming match over a play. However, in a more private and smaller setting, a recent Little League team in North Carolina witnessed their Coach and Umpire break out into a fistfight over the topic of using foul language in front of the youth baseball players.
Recent footage of the brawl emerged on social media capturing the majority of the fight between the two sportsmen. The baseball game taking place however was no regular Little League game, but rather the North Carolina State Tournament for Little League players.
The animosity was sparked in the fifth inning of the game when Umpire Robby Beamon was heard stating that the Cherryville, North Carolina Coach should be ejected from the game and “exit the field” after the coach had been heard swearing in front of his youth players. The trash talk seemed to antagonize the team’s coach, as he felt the need to confront the umpire at home base for his words.
In the footage, the two men can be seen face to face once the confrontation began, where the Cherryville coach then shoved the umpire, erupting chaos thereafter. The umpire then smacked the coach in his face with his umpire mask, as another umpire tried to intervene between the two. The two men continued to swing fists until another coach was able to restrain the umpire. According to reports, the incident is being labeled as assault by a witness.
It is believed that tension and animosity arose between the two men since the Cherryville team had been suffering a hard loss with a score of 15-6 during the chaotic fistfight.
