{"id":294543,"date":"2023-05-08T19:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=294543"},"modified":"2023-05-08T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:58:09","slug":"tennessee-high-school-baseball-teams-have-seasons-ended-after-fight-on-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=294543","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee high school baseball teams have seasons ended after fight on field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tennessee high school baseball playoffs are back in the national news cycle for less than favorable circumstances after two teams had the season cut short due to an on-field fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The TSSA reprimanded Elizabethton and Unicoi County for the incident that took place on Saturday&#8217;s Division 1-3A playoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/news\/local\/benches-clear-after-altercation-at-unicoi-elizabethton-district-1-3a-playoff-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TVA Credit Union Ballpark reports<\/a>, the fight began during the close game when a Unicoi County player and an Elizabethton player had a brief altercation at third base following a hit. Within seconds, a punch was thrown, which led to the benches clearing and the scuffle escalating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/david_painter28\/status\/1654992167461421056?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Grainy video<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0of the fight made its way onto social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The game was suspended in the seventh inning after the umpires and coaches broke up the brawl, which meant Sunday\u2019s District 1-3A championship game had to be postponed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the aftermath, the schools stated a &#8220;unified&#8221; proposal was made to the TSSA&#8217;s Gene Menes regarding the punishment, while the association reviewed the events and reports before proceeding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">By Monday, the fate of both schools had been determined:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Unicoi County was fined $1,250<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The baseball team was placed on restrictive probation for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The team is also on probation for the 2023-2024 school year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Elizabethton was fined $1,750<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The baseball team is on restrictive probation for the rest of this school year as well<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Elizabethton is under two years of probation until the 2024-2025 school year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjhl.com\/news\/local\/tssaa-ends-season-for-elizabethton-and-unicoi-county-hs-baseball-teams-after-fight-on-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to reports<\/a>, Unicoi County will appeal the ruling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The ruling marks the second time during the 2023 playoffs the TSSA needed to make a judgment on a team that resulted in a premature end to the season. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But this scenario was not as trivial as going <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/tennessee-high-school-baseball-pitch-count-violation-forfeit-no-hitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one pitch over the allotted pitch count<\/a>\u2014which happened last week in the game between Ensworth and Father Ryan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Instead, the nature of the altercation was more severe and the punishment handed down seemed to match the violation of the TSSAA\u2019s unsportsmanlike conduct by-laws.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tennessee high school baseball is back in the news after an on-field brawl during a playoff game<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294544,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294543\/revisions\/294544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}