Overview
- The confrontation began in the top of the seventh when Central Michigan reliever Max Hammond applied a hard, two-armed tag that knocked Toledo’s Luke Walton down on a slow chopper up the first-base line.
- Hammond and Walton were ejected along with an unidentified Toledo player, according to a Central Michigan athletic department spokesperson.
- Umpires contained the scrum with only light shoving reported, and the game continued without further incident.
- Central Michigan won 6-5 in 11 innings on an RBI single by Harrison Bowman.
- A clip of the play posted by Jomboy Media spread widely on social media, drawing broad attention to the benches-clearing incident in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.