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When Caracas' Gregor Blanco hit a game-tying, ninth-inning, two-out home run off Francisco Rodriguez in Game 4 of last season's Venezuelan baseball finals, Blanco gestured toward the Magallanes dugout as he rounded the bases. After Blanco arrived at home plate, catcher Robinson Chirinos got in Blanco's face.
It wasn't just that the benches emptied. National police, armed with machine guns, came on the field. Attack dogs began barking. Fans reached through the screen behind home plate to try to punch Magallanes security men.
"It," Magallanes pitcher Eric Junge recalled as he described the scene, "was awesome."
Welcome to Magallanes-Caracas, the greatest rivalry in sports.
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