Usually when benches clear during a Major League Baseball game, it's in response to an obvious provocation: a hit batsman or a display of unsportsmanlike conduct. That wasn't the case during the seventh inning of the Pirates' victory against the Blue Jays (box score) on Monday night.

The Toronto Blue Jays and Pittsburgh Pirates got into a strange scuffle on Monday night, with outfielder Tommy Pham at its center.

Toronto entered the game with a five-game lead over the Boston Red Sox in the AL East standings, while the Yankees sat 5.5 games back. The Blue Jays are pushing for their first division title in a decade, and losing Guerrero for any length of time would make that climb much harder.

Pirates outfielder Tommy Pham may have wanted a piece of Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman on Monday night in Pittsburgh, but his beef with the opposition didn’t stop there.

Guerrero left the contest in the fifth inning when Ty France pinch hit in his place. The franchise first baseman felt hamstring tightness in the third frame after doing the splits to field a throw from across the diamond,

Paul Skenes kept the American League-leading Toronto Blue Jays in check for six innings, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates secure a 5-2 victory.

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The wait is over. Friday night in Miami, Shane Bieber will make his Blue Jays debut. Manager John Schneider announced the news ahead of Monday’s series opener against the Pirates at PNC Park, and while the string of “TBD” that follows Bieber still holds plenty of intrigue,