A Rare Player vs. Hitting Coach Fight Breaks Out During A's-Astros

FIGHT! 2020 has struck again and this time we have a player vs. opposing bench coach bench-clearing brawl during a pandemic. Somewhere Rob Manfred was screaming 'NOOOOO' at his TCL 65-incher as Ramon Laureano and Astros hitting coach Alex Cintron barked at each other and then got into a feud.

Laureano appeared ready to risk it all, but as you can see in the video, Cintron had three Stros players come to his defense as it hit the fan. Alex can't be barking like that and then look like he's in an NBA fight with the starting frontline protecting him. Be a man and step up to have a corona-off with Laureano.

As for what started this, Laureano had just taken his second hit-by-pitch of the game and was fed up. The bad news here for Laureano is that we know MLB will now go into full protection mode for Cintron. It'll be like Laureano put a mob hit out on Cintron and he'll get a 10-game suspension.

I'm sure you're wanting to know if Cintron had a part in the Astros trashcan banging scandal. Let's go back to a February report on Cintron's role in all this.