{"id":65859,"date":"2019-06-25T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/teen-ump-addresses-fistfight-at-baseball-game\/"},"modified":"2019-06-25T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:13:00","slug":"teen-ump-addresses-fistfight-at-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/teen-ump-addresses-fistfight-at-baseball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen ump addresses fistfight at baseball game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- Missing image mapping. {\"id\":254781,\"url\":\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/storyimage\/CJ\/20190624\/NEWS01\/190629924\/AR\/0\/AR-190629924.jpg\",\"caption_title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Parents brawl after disagreeing about an umpireu0026#x2019;s call in Lakewood.\",\"article_id\":143203,\"factbox_id\":null,\"photo_byline\":\"Lakewood Police Department\",\"alt_text\":null,\"orientation_landscape\":true,\"in_article\":false,\"is_square\":false,\"gallery_id\":null,\"created_at\":\"2019-06-27T16:29:22.000-06:00\",\"updated_at\":\"2019-06-27T16:29:22.000-06:00\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":960,\"order\":null,\"photo_sales\":false,\"special_report_id\":null,\"durango_coupon_id\":null,\"guid\":null,\"naviga_url\":null} --><\/p>\n<p>LAKEWOOD \u2013 A 13-year-old umpire said his warning against both sides for using foul language prompted a fistfight between adults at a youth baseball game in suburban Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Cordova tells KUSA-TV that after the warning, the coaches \u201cwere getting into my face,\u201d and the melee started soon after.<\/p>\n<p>Video released by police shows men exchanging punches on the field during Saturday\u2019s game in Lakewood. Six people have been cited so far for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Cordova said that \u201cmaybe by issuing a warning everyone would just chill, take a step back and realize how stupid they were acting. \u2026 but (I) guess not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bear Creek Junior Sports Association said Wednesday that it has zero tolerance for such behavior and canceled the remaining games for both teams of 7-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>Video released by police shows men exchanging punches on the field during Saturday\u2019s game in suburban Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman John Romero said the fight broke out because some coaches and parents were angry with the umpire.<\/p>\n<p>Romero said authorities found the sixth suspect with help from people who watched video of the fight shot by spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Several adults were injured, but none required hospital care.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D3nUZUujYRI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thought a warning would help coaches and parents \u2018chill\u2019 \u2013 it didn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65859"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}