Baseball is currently slogging its way through their 432-game season but on Memorial Day a tussle out of AT&T Park in San Francisco grabbed the attention of the nation and myself. We even have a Notre Dame alum playing a major role. Let’s discuss.

First off, the background involved isn’t important. The Nationals Bryce Harper once hit some long bombs off Giants pitcher Hunter Strickland in the playoffs a couple years ago, they faced each other for the first time since then, and Strickland fed some laces into Harper’s thigh bone.

Then the fun begins.

Of course, Harper got absolutely roasted for his failed attempt at a helmet throw–just a bit outside! Hey, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. There are few things more difficult to throw with velocity and accuracy than a batting helmet. You can try to palm the top of the helmet which works well in close quarters but not at Harper’s distance. You can use the ear flap for leverage but accuracy is surely out of the window. Mr. Harper goes with the simplest route in the heat of the moment, the fingers on the brim method. It does not work well.

In retrospect, Strickland’s “ahhhhhh don’t hit me!” turn looks pretty silly for a guy 6-4, 220. I don’t necessarily blame him as a flying helmet could do some damage. Still, a quick hands to the face in protection would’ve sufficed before Harper ended up sending his lid into right field anyway.

Strickand almost slips on his pivot but shows tremendous agility and quickness squaring his shoulders and closing the gap between himself and Harper allowing for a quick jab and a miss from the Nats slugger.

Give Harper credit, though. So far he’s suffered the indignation of being hit by a fastball in the leg, given us among the national pastime’s worst helmet throws, and he’s now quickly losing this fight. However, he too squares up quickly and lands a hard right to Strickland’s facial and brim region, effectively winning the fight.

SHARK OUTTA NOWHERE.

It’s former Notre Dame All-American receiver turned MLB pro Jeff Samardzija looking to wreck all sorts of worlds proving the old adage that you can take the player out of football but you can’t take the football out of the player.

If you look closely in the above tweet, Samardzija was READY to end Harper’s 2017 and possibly 2018 season. His fist is coming in fast and straight for an unaware Harper’s face. I mean, he looks super pissed off and cannot like Harper at all. Instead, Shark runs right into his own damn teammate giving his friend a concussion to boot. What is Michael Morse thinking? If you’re going to be this aggressive you have to either grab someone or throw fists. He tries to get in between a fight and pays the price.

By the way, we can blame the ridiculous Memorial Day camo uniforms for causing some confusion. In the bright California sunlight you can barely tell who is on which team.

Lost in the fracas is the amount of quality men’s hair flying all over the place. And that doesn’t really include Jason Werth’s mane as he pulls an opponent away from the swinging arms. It’s funny though as the Nats own broadcast keeps cutting back to Werth like, “Yeah, he had to have done something.”

Lastly, we cannot close this tale without bringing up Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy. You can see him coming into the frame just moments after the Sharknado as he tries to grab Harper’s jersey to pull him away. A split second later and he completely bails. Murphy’s face would not be exposed as the Samardzija Disruption causes him to turn his back and fall to the ground. He truly wanted nothing out of this fight except to save Harper.