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The Cincinnati Reds interim manager has an interesting idea to make sure bench-clearing brawls — a baseball tradition that dates back decades — become even rarer. He thinks baseball should adopt the hockey rule, which forces players not engaged in the fight to retreat to the bench or stay on the bench.
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“With four umpires, they could stop anything that’s going to happen between two guys,” Riggleman said Friday before the second game of the series. “Once it gets to be a bunch of guys out there, if there really is some animosity between clubs, there’s no way they can stop it. I really would like to see it. Because you would just know, hey, you’ve got to sit there and watch them. If two guys really want to fight, not much is going to happen because four umpires should be able to get in there pretty quick.”
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