Brewers - Pirates Brawl Appreciation

Today Major League Baseball dealt suspensions for Sunday's scuffle between the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates. Gerrit Cole, who decided he needed to be the enforcer of baseball etiquette, took it upon himself to tell Carlos Gomez how fast he needed to get out of the box on what he thought was a homerun. This ignited a brawl that Cole wasn't even punished for in the end. Ultimately suspensions were given to Carlos Gomez (3 games), Martin Maldonado (5 games), Travis Snider (2 games) and Russell Martin (1 game). Lost in the slap on the wrists from Major League Baseball is the appreciation of good competition. Sunday's brawl showed us in an era where star players run the league, being a team trumps everything. Cole and Gomez who started the brawl weren't even the ones finishing it. It came down to Snider and Martin defending their young stud pitcher and backup catcher Martin Maldonado standing up for his start center-fielder coming in as the enforcer with a haymaker on Snider, who will be sporting a black eye for the next couple of days. I for one am excited to watch these two teams battle it out for the rest of the season. Every inside pitch, hard tag, and bat flip will have extra meaning, ultimately leading to great finishes like we saw with Khris Davis' go ahead homerun in the 14th inning Sunday. These two teams will see each other for four more series throughout the summer. Let the games begin.