Grant Balfour's no stranger to brawls in the ALDS sparked by profanity, and he was at the center of one again today in the ninth as he attempted to close out a win for the A's against the Tigers. Alas, Victor Martinez was going to make sure today's bottom of the ninth would be punctuated with pugilism.


Kudos to MLB Network for giving us wide open microphones on the field! Of course, MLB then censored the audio for their embeddable version, so here's the uncensored version as broadcast: