bench-clearing brawl
Full-team stadium fight
A bench-clearing brawl is a fight during a team sport—especially baseball or hockey—in which players from both teams' benches rush onto the field or ice to join the altercation.
The term emphasizes the escalation from isolated scuffle to mass confrontation: A brushback pitch sparked a bench-clearing brawl in the seventh inning.
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- baseballBat-and-ball team sport
- hit by pitchBatter struck by ball
- charging the moundBatter attacks the pitcher
- fightPhysical or verbal conflict
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Honorable conduct in competition
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