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- Updated: May 15, 2016
ARLINGTON — The rivalry between the Blue Jays and Rangers turned ugly on Sunday afternoon as a pair of bench-clearing incidents overshadowed Texas’ 7-6 victory.
The fracas started when Jose Bautista was hit by a pitch from right-hander Matt Bush during the eighth, but the scene turned chaotic later in that frame. Bautista made a hard slide into second base and made contact with the legs of second baseman Rougned Odor and everything went downhill from there.
Odor took exception to the play and the two got into a physical altercation. Bautista and Josh Donaldson were ejected from the Blue Jays’ side, while Odor and bench coach Steve Buechele got tossed on the Rangers’ side. That was the first of two incidents as Toronto retaliated when Jesse Chavez hit Prince Fielder with a pitch in the bottom half of the inning.
The situation completely …
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