Associated Press
BOSTON -- Jeff Nelson and Karim Garcia of the Yankees were charged Thursday with assault and battery for fighting with a groundskeeper in the Fenway Park bullpen during a playoff game against the Red Sox.
A clerk magistrate also found probable cause to go forward with Nelson's cross-complaint against Paul Williams, 24, a middle school teacher and part-time groundskeeper from Derry, N.H.
The fight took place during a raucous Game 3 of the AL championship series Oct. 11. Williams said he was attacked by Yankee reliever Nelson because he was cheering for the Red Sox in the Yankee bullpen.
But Nelson said during a hearing in Roxbury District Court last week that it was Williams who provoked the fight. Garcia later jumped over the outfield fence into the bullpen to join the fight.
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