If I’m making a list of athletes who I want not want vowing revenge against me, Gary Sheffield would be right at the top. So I wouldn’t want to be Fausto Carmona or the rest of the Cleveland Indians after they were involved in a bench-clearing brawl with the mercurial Tigers on Friday night.

In terms of baseball fights, this was a pretty good one - actually punches, not the usual “everyone charges out of the bullpen to slow dance with each other” thing. It was a slow-boiling brawl, starting after Carmona hit Sheffield in the seventh inning. Sheffield and Carmona jawed as Sheffield went to first, but it didn’t blow up until after a pick-off throw to first.

Video after the jump.

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