VIDEO: Benches Clear in Mets-Rockies Game When Drew Gagnon Hits Ian Desmond After Giving up 2 HRs
By Thomas Carannante
The Colorado Rockies are beating the New York Mets, and it wouldn't have been a night without Daniel Murphy hitting a bomb against his former team. Well, after he did that, Mets reliever Drew Gagnon wasn't pleased about giving up two bombs (the other to David Dahl), and a delivered a fastball right to the back of Ian Desmond. The benches and bullpens promptly cleared.
The Mets and Rockies just cleared the benches after Ian Desmond was hit by a pitch. pic.twitter.com/z1h4XBsdUb
— SNY (@SNYtv) June 8, 2019
Ohhh boy, that could have escalated quickly but somehow everyone kept their cool. Desmond looked like he was about to beat Gagnon to a pulp but instead just walked down to first. And how about Murphy jumping RIGHT out of the dugout ready to brawl against his former team!
A lot of nothing #mets #rockies. Benches cleared pic.twitter.com/o7rsmeI6An
— SamZee (@SamZComedy) June 8, 2019
What could've been a wildly entertaining Friday night ended up being one of the most anti-climactic conclusions to one of the most obvious plunkings out of frustration we've seen.
Leave it to the Mets to somehow botch a potential dugout- and bullpen-clearing brawl.