Angels, Braves players get into wild brawl after high pitch to Jorge Soler

The Los Angeles Angels and Atlanta Braves got into a frenzied combat connected Tuesday night.

The incidental occurred successful the bottommost of the 5th inning with 1 retired and a runner connected archetypal base. Angels slugger Jorge Soler was astatine the sheet facing disconnected against Braves pitcher Reynaldo López.

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Los Angeles Angels' Jorge Soler and Atlanta Braves' Reynaldo López fought during the 5th inning of a shot crippled successful Anaheim, Calif., connected April 7, 2026. (Ethan Swope/AP)

López threw a transportation precocious and inside. The shot went implicit Jonah Heim’s glove, caromed disconnected the backstop and Heim was capable to retrieve the shot and occurrence it to 2nd basal to effort to get the runner stealing 2nd base. The propulsion was excessively late, but the fireworks started soon aft the throw.

Soler appeared to instrumentality objection to the transportation and charged astatine López. Soler was throwing haymakers, portion López was throwing punches to fend him off. Soler was tackled to the crushed by Braves manager Walt Weiss earlier immoderate large harm was done and López was forced retired of the scrum.

The Angels subordinate received a lasting ovation arsenic helium walked backmost to the dugout pursuing his contiguous ejection.

"I emotion Soler. We were teammates here," Weiss said. "But that’s a large man, and truthful I conscionable felt I've gotta get him disconnected his feet due to the fact that he’s gonna wounded somebody. And truthful that was my instinct, conscionable to get successful determination and get Jorge disconnected his feet, yeah, due to the fact that helium was connected a warpath."

Weiss was an adjunct manager with the Braves successful 2021 erstwhile the Braves won the World Series. Soler was the World Series MVP that year. He and López were teammates successful 2024.

Los Angeles Angels' Jorge Soler is tackled to the crushed by Atlanta Braves players arsenic a combat breaks retired during the 5th inning of a shot crippled successful Anaheim, Calif., connected April 7, 2026. (Ethan Swope/AP)

"It’s conscionable a shame, the concern and however things unfolded," López said done a translator, according to MLB.com. "On my part, determination was ne'er immoderate intent to deed him astatine immoderate point. So, again, it’s conscionable a shame."

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Soler deed a location tally disconnected López successful the archetypal inning. He’s 14-of-23 with 5 location runs and 3 doubles against López each time.

"Obviously, I person bully numbers against him," Soler said. "After the location tally and getting deed by a transportation aft that, and past helium missed mode excessively precocious and adjacent to my head. At this level, you can’t miss similar that."

Weiss said helium understood the frustration.

"I cognize it didn’t look bully due to the fact that of Soler’s numbers against Lópey, and helium deed a homer, helium deed him. It didn’t look good," Weiss said. "Lópey’s not throwing astatine him. I don’t let our pitchers to propulsion astatine radical conscionable due to the fact that they can’t get ’em out. Our occupation is to get ’em out. But I recognize wherefore Soler got angry. And he’s a truly mild-mannered guy. So, I deliberation the power flipped for him.

A combat breaks retired during the 5th inning of a shot crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Angels and the Atlanta Braves successful Anaheim, Calif., connected April 7, 2026. (Ethan Swope/AP)

"There was nary intent there. I conscionable deliberation that Lópey’s conscionable overthrowing, due to the fact that he’s had a hard clip getting him out. But he’s surely not trying to deed him

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Atlanta won the crippled connected Tuesday, 7-2.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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