SAN FRANCISCO — In the middle of the visitors clubhouse, Shane Victorino adjusted his cufflinks and prepared to speak. He was calm now, but agitated. His teammates had already rushed inside to watch replays of the brawl between the Giants. They laughed, yelled and smiled. A 9-2 victory over San Francisco was sweeter than usual.
"What a game," said Brian Schneider, the one who ended up on the bottom of the pile. "An intense game."Without watching the video a few dozen times, it's impossible to know who threw punches and who didn't. But you can bet some people at Major League Baseball will be spend plenty of man-hours on this one. You can also bet that Shane Victorino's going to be fined and perhaps suspended for a few games, since if he'd just taken his base all of this ugliness would have been avoided. Especially since he tried to push his way through umpire Mike Muchlinski.
Ramon Ramirez probably gets suspended too, for plunking Victorino with some apparent intention.
Just before Ramirez nailed Victorino, Jimmy Rollins had stolen second base with the Phillies ahead by six runs. Ah, those unwritten rules .
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