A good brawl can inspire comaraderie. It was interesting to watch. These things happen. Not so good. Keith Foulke was injured.
Fighting gives baseball a black eye.
But Saturday's fight-marred game at Comiskey Park was no place for pacifists. But it is a part of the game. Detroit's Robert Fick, Dean Palmer, Jeff Weaver and Danny Patterson, and the Sox's Magglio Ordonez and Bill Simas were ejected after the first brawl. Sox pitcher Tanyon Sturtze and Manuel were given automatic ejections when Sturtze hit Deivi Cruz in the ninth. Sox bench coach Joe Nossek, who replaced Manuel, and closer Bob Howry also received automatic ejections in the ninth after Howry hit Shane Halter to ignite the second brawl.