Your San Francisco Giants are suddenly red hot and back in the Wild Card race, after a Tuesday night game that developed into a bench-clearing brawl just two batters into the game.

Tuesday’s Major League Baseball highlight of the day was a home run by San Francisco Giants third baseman Rafael Devers, in a 7-4 Giants win against the Colorado Rockies that was the Giants’ third win in a row, and eighth win in their last nine games. But it was the highlight of the day not because of the Devers home run, but because of the enormous fight that broke out all over the field after he hit the homer, just two batters into the game.

Let’s go to Dave Fleming and Javier Lopez with the call.

Devers hits the home run, and Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland starts yelling at him for supposedly trotting the bases too slowly and casually, which I guess violates some unwritten rule of baseball. Both benches run onto the field to pretend-fight, as they do in Major League Baseball. And Devers does not even clear the bases, instead deciding to abandon his base-running so he too can jump straight into this fake fight.

NBC Sports Bay Area quickly obliged with replays from alternate angles. Dave Fleming says of the irate Rockies pitcher Freeland, “It doesn't take an expert lip-reader to see what he was saying.”

Nearly eight whole minutes after he hit the home run, Devers returned to eventually run the bases that he neglected to run, saved by the technicality that the game was temporarily halted for interference because bench players had run onto the field. The Rockies pitcher was ejected, but Giants players Matt Chapman and Willy Adames were also ejected (Adames on his birthday!) for shoving Rockies players.

But by virtue of this recent hot streak, the Giants are now just five games out of the last NL Wild Card spot. They still have 23 games to play, and almost all of them are against teams with losing records. But there are two series left against the LA Dodgers (September 12-14 at home, and September 19-21 in LA). And those two series may stand as the make-or-break determining whether these Giants can sneak into the 2025 MLB playoffs in the final days of the regular season.

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Image: DENVER, CO - SEPTEMBER 2: The San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies fight on the field after a verbal altercation between Kyle Freeland #21 of the Colorado Rockies and Rafael Devers #16 of the San Francisco Giants after Devers hit a two run home run in the first inning at Coors Field on September 2, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)