Demonstrating considerably more fight than the White Sox have displayed all season, Chicago baseball fans engaged in a brutal hair-pulling and punching brawl this weekend during an interleague battle on the South Side.
Both visiting Cubs fans and White Sox supporters took part in the fight, but the combatants were not strictly divided by their interests. As seen in a video that has gone viral on social media, the fight began with two women wearing White Sox gear.
One woman threw a right hook at another but was grabbed by her long brown hair. Men in Cubs and White Sox uniforms tried to intervene, but the situation quickly deteriorated from there.
Although the fight started with two women, suddenly it was a group of men who were doing the hitting.
Much of the violence could be attributed to two men: a taller fighter wearing a brightly colored shirt and his shorter opponent wearing a white tank top.
The altercation began with two women wearing White Sox gear during Saturday’s game. Men wearing both Cubs and White Sox gear tried to intervene, but the situation quickly deteriorated from there.
The fight took place on Saturday, when Grady Sizemore’s White Sox fell to the North Side Cubs.
Curiously, it was the shorter of the two who seemed to beat the other.
“Stop! It’s over!” a peacekeeper can be heard shouting at the 40-second mark of the minute-long video.
Unfortunately, it was far from over.
A man wearing a replica White Sox jersey tried to reignite the fight but was thrown against a brick wall on the main concourse of Guaranteed Rate Field.
It was at that moment that two security guards arrived and tried to calm the tensions.
As Internet commentators were quick to point out, the brutal scene occurred in an unremarkable 3-1 Cubs victory over a White Sox team that has yet to reach 30 wins on the season.
And while the Cubs are easily better than their South Side rivals and are just four games out of the final Wild Card spot, the North Side Cubs are still below .500 and battling most of the National League for a postseason spot.
The fighters were not strictly divided by their fan base, as several White Sox fans appeared to be directly fighting each other during the fight.
Much of the violence could be attributed to two men: a taller fighter in a brightly colored shirt and his shorter opponent wearing a white tank top.
“Imagine getting this mad at two teams with a combined 87 wins,” one fan wrote on X.
“It’s not an intra-city series without drunk fans throwing hands at each other,” added one White Sox fan.
Some criticized the fighters’ technique.
“Hahaha,” began one message on X. “Not a single punch thrown properly. Windmill arms.”
The dagger was delivered by a woman named Shannon Adcock: “They all hit like the White Sox.”
After firing manager Pedro Grifol and replacing him with interim captain Grady Sizemore, the Chicago South Siders lost both games of their homestand with the Cubs. However, they rallied on Monday to record their best win of the season: a 12-2 victory over the New York Yankees.
Meanwhile, the Cubs fell 9-8 to the Cleveland Guardians as their interleague play streak continues into late August.
