On a steamy mid-August night at Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium, Braves pitcher Pascual Perez beaned San Diego’s Alan Wiggins with the game’s first pitch. The Padres answered in the second inning when Ed Whitson threw behind Perez’s head; Perez waved his bat and the benches emptied.

More fights followed in the fifth, eighth, and ninth innings as players used bats as weapons, umpires were toppled, a female fan tackled a player, and fans threw beer. By game’s end there were 14 ejections, including Braves manager Joe Torre and his Padres counterpart Dick Williams.