{"id":31091,"date":"2025-09-03T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/devers-lights-up-coors-field-home-run-sparks-giants-vs-rockies-brawl\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:50:11","slug":"devers-lights-up-coors-field-home-run-sparks-giants-vs-rockies-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/devers-lights-up-coors-field-home-run-sparks-giants-vs-rockies-brawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Devers lights up Coors Field: Home run sparks Giants vs. Rockies brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Brawl at Coors Field: Devers and Freeland have tense encounter<\/h2>\n\nA two-run homer by Rafael Devers in the first inning sparked a tense confrontation at Coors Field, leading the Rockies and Giants benches and bullpens to empty after a war of words and pushing.\n\nThe incident occurred when Devers, after connecting with the left-handed pitcher Kyle Freeland&#8217;s pitch, took a few seconds to admire the trajectory of the ball before starting his run around the bases. This gesture provoked a reaction from the Colorado pitcher, who began to berate him.\n\nDevers responded to the provocations before reaching the initial base, which led to the intervention of players from both teams on the field. The situation intensified with the participation of Matt Chapman and Willy Adames, who were ejected along with Freeland by the umpires.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"false\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BENCHES CLEAR after Rafael Devers hits a homer \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\udea8<br>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSGiants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NBCSGiants<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZsErOhDjmB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZsErOhDjmB<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1698666188016622637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe game was stopped for several minutes. In fact, Devers completed his home run trot eight minutes after hitting the 397-foot blast.\n\nDespite the ejections and tension, the Giants achieved a 7-4 victory, their ninth in their last ten matches, which put them back above .500 (70-69). In addition to Devers, the offensive power was backed by home runs from Casey Schmitt, Wilmer Flores and Patrick Bailey, while starter Logan Webb was credited with the win with seven strikeouts in five innings.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t do anything wrong. I didn&#8217;t do anything different than when I hit a home run. I don&#8217;t know why it bothered him,\u201d Devers said.<\/p><cite>Rafael Devers<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFreeland, with a 3-14 record and a 5.41 ERA in the season, justified his reaction by pointing out that he felt &#8220;disrespected&#8221; by Devers&#8217; attitude.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brawl at Coors Field: Devers and Freeland have tense encounter A two-run homer by Rafael Devers in the first inning sparked a tense confrontation at Coors Field, leading the Rockies and Giants benches and bullpens to empty after a war of words and pushing. The incident occurred when Devers, after connecting with the left-handed pitcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[8223,901,3905,1291],"class_list":{"0":"post-31091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-expulsions","9":"tag-fight","10":"tag-jonron","11":"tag-rafael-devers"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}