Apparently, Gary Sheffield almost hit a fan last night at Fenway. He says that the fan punched him in the mouth, Sheffield then threw his hands up and threw the ball into the infield. The problem I have is that, upon looking at the play back, it didn’t look like anyone hit Sheffield at all. It looked like the fan was trying to grab the ball and just so happened to smack Sheffield. It looked inadvertent. It looked like a drunk fan was trying to pull a triple off Veritek into the crowd and bring it home as a souvenir. It was crowd interference, but I doubt the fan wanted to “sock Sheffield in the mouth.”

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And then this came out.