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League Punishes Pair for Fighting Friday, August 11th , 2056 Yesterday at Dodge Field Dick Pound and Xiao-mei Chia got into each other's space and then into each other's face. They began to grapple and fell to the ground. That's when it boiled over into a full-fledged bench-clearing tussle between the North Ft. Myers Gators and Flint Crush. Reason finally prevailed as the umpires restored order. After much discussion, only the two major combatants were ejected from the game. Today the league office notified the ballclubs that Pound will have to sit out 4 while Chia would be given a 9-game suspension for their roles in the brawl. This season Pound is swinging the bat at a .244 pace. He has hit 15 home runs and scored 27 times, while driving in 33. His on-base percentage is .318 and he has played in 61 games. To date this year in 3 starts, Chia has crafted a 2-1 mark with a 3.89 ERA. |
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