Already brewing up a storm?
QUEBEC AND SHENGORYEO - The Bears of Gunnison and Telluride have been in only two games of qualification and they've already sent shockwaves through the rest of the baseball world. A mere two games into the qualifiers and Bob Huttle has already been ejected. Given the timing of this game as the opening games of the second matchday was Dod Rava and G&T, this is likely the first and if we're lucky the only, brawl of this WBC qualifying session. The kerfuffle on the diamond came after a pitch from Henryk Kabat came way to close to the head of Dave Forrester.
Back in the fourth inning Forrester had trucked catcher Hugo Szałwia rather hard and deliberately knocking the ball out of his glove and allowing the ex-basketball star to score the teams second run. Forrester has this account of the ordeal in the 7th.
They didn't like the idea of me running over their catcher, so they sent me a lil gift yanno, so I said you don't like me, then come face me one on one and he made mistake of saying "sure". He charged and I took a swing at him. I knew I could take on this dude, it's not first fight. Not the first time I took matters into my own hands and that was that.
Forrester will be suspended for the next game, Buddy Trammel will take over for the next game. On the Dod Rava side Leszek Kois will also miss the next game. Gunnison and Telluride won the game 3-2 after a Sherman Truedeau RBI Single drew in the game winning run in the 6th.
Gunnison and Telluride (UR) - 3
Dod Rava (22) - 2