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A wild fight broke out between several women at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday. A fan wearing a Freddie Freeman jersey led the charge.
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Viral videos captured the brawl during the second game of the San Francisco Giants series. SF secured the series with back-to-back dominating victories over the World Series champions. But the final score didn’t matter. The fight completely stole the show.
The woman in the Freeman jersey kept throwing punches at rival fans in the lower deck.
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It is not clear what started the fight, but the viral clip shows that at least three women were swinging. None of them has been identified, but the one wearing a black Freddie Freeman jersey seemed like a handful.
While the bystanders were trying to pacify the chaos, she wouldn’t calm down. A few others had to hold her physically.
People were tugging at her T-shirt from behind to stop her from jumping toward the lower-deck fans again. But it became much worse once the security arrived.
A woman was heard saying, “Take her out. Take her out.”
They were already unhappy with their favorite team losing to their biggest rivals. An unnecessary chaos is not something they wanted.
Instead of calming down, the woman escalated the situation by throwing up what looked like gang signs.
Los Angeles is known for gang culture, and Chavez Ravine isn’t any different. This triggered a bigger chaos as the other visitors loudly expressed their irritation. Some slurs were heard. She was even seen engaged in a verbal dispute with another violent fan wearing a blue Dodgers jersey from the same deck.
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The brawl finally ended after the security personnel took them away. The rest of the zone started cheering – but was it because of the signs or because they were leaving – we cannot say for sure!
The Dodgers lost the game 6-2. But scenes like these aren’t unfamiliar for high-profile matchups.
Another Dodgers-Giants fan clash revives memories of past violence
Big fights happen in every sport when historic rivals play. We see it in the NHL with the Bruins and Canadiens. The NBA had the famous Pistons-Pacers brawl. College football always gets nasty between Ohio State and Michigan. Baseball is the same.
We saw an Angels fan stomping on a Yankees supporter back in April. Within a week of that violent event, we saw some Dodgers fans engaged with a few Giants diehards outside the stadium during the Dodgers’ road series to San Francisco. Of course, the LA-SF rivalry is longstanding, with Dodgers fan Jonathan Denver fatally stabbed near AT&T Park in 2013.
There were brawls even among the San Diego Padres fans over merchandise. But none of these compares to what we have experienced in March 2011.
Giants fan Bryan Stow was brutally beaten by two individuals in the Dodgers stadium parking lot. It was so severe that Stow suffered permanent brain damage, and his family sued the Dodgers.
The jury decided on a penalty amount close to $18 million, and the franchise couldn’t even properly pay him due to the financial turmoil it was going through. About $13 million was paid by 2014, but that wasn’t the worst part.
Stow has been struggling even after 15 years.
The rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants has been there since the 1800s, back when both teams were based in New York.
Although Tuesday’s brawl was nowhere near these brutal incidents, showing gang signs shouldn’t be taken lightly either. Fans expect both teams and MLB to take more serious steps to avoid such incidents in the future.
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Arunaditya Aima