Weatherford College Pitcher Decks NCTC Batter during the Home Run Trot

College was brought in on Wednesday afternoon baseball A match between Weatherford College and North Central Texas College. It was a pretty unobtrusive duel to the top of the sixth. The NCTC conceded one from Weatherford before first baseman Josh Phillips struck two right-handed blows from Owen Woodward to bring the NCTC forward in one run.

While Phillips was walking around the bases, Woodward suddenly decided to become Prime Minister Ronnie Lotte and rushed to the attacking home run when he took third place, completely leveling it and (obviously) starting a small skirmish between the two teams.

The video is a bit grainy, and the net doesn’t help. The video also starts when Phillips goes halfway to his lynx, so we don’t have the full context. But you still need to decide: what happened here?

The initial reaction is to think that Phillips did or said something that caused the incident. Pitchers don’t turn into free safes in the middle of the game for no reason. Phillips had just given Homer his head and was probably feeling well. Maybe even talked about bags. That doesn’t mean he deserved what he got, but it will help explain how it happened in the first place.