​When you get plunked hard in the rear in the middle of a game you're leading 5-1 by a known hothead, it takes a lot of composure to not begin a huge brawl.





Sometimes, however, a brawl is preferable.





Manny Machado decided he wanted a brawl, and a brawl he got, indeed. Look at the attitude. The hop, skip, jump, and run en route to the mound. This fight is a thing of beauty.

Well then. Yordano Ventura hits Manny Machado...and Machado charges the mound swinging. #Royals pic.twitter.com/5Ik612fJWT — Chris Lilly (@wibwChrisLilly) June 8, 2016

​​Now that's how you own your own swagger.





Nobody's looking for a fight more often and in more places than Yordano Ventura, and it was quite reassuring to watch young Manny give it to him, fists a-blazin'. He had to defend his home turf, after all.

Who wore it better?



(credit: Alek Yakovlev) pic.twitter.com/MZKgw21YGV — MLB Memes (@MLBMeme) June 8, 2016





No word yet on when Yordano will try to hit another Oriole and oh, whoops, Yordano just hit another Oriole.

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