This past weekend, police charged a Miami-area man with a felony after he allegedly hit a fellow softball player with a bat during a brawl that broke out at a game in Aventura, Florida. Aventura police reported that the altercation occurred during a softball league game at Waterways Park.
Around 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, a verbal altercation between the teams resulted in pushing and shoving between “multiple players,” according to the authorities. Police said that during the altercation, one of the softball players struck the victim in the back of the head with a metal bat.
CCTV footage, according to the authorities, showed the man hitting the victim with the bat, causing the victim’s baseball cap to pop off. Emergency personnel took the victim to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital as a trauma alert patient.
Local 10 News reported that authorities charged the man who allegedly swung the bat with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
This was the second time this month that a softball game degenerated into someone getting hit with a bat
On June 1, NBC New York stated that police arrested a Long Island man for hitting another man in the head with a bat after a fight broke out during a rec league softball game on a Sunday afternoon.
According to Nassau County police, the argument started during a game at Cedar Creek Park on Merrick Road in Seaford, when a dispute between the two squads became heated.
Police added that during the altercation, one of the players struck another man in the head with a softball bat. The 34-year-old victim had to be taken to the hospital.
According to authorities, they took the alleged bat swinger into custody at the park and charged him with fourth-degree weapon possession and second-degree assault.