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Phillies-Rockies benches clear after Bryce Harper-Jake Bird spat: ‘Problem with it’
Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper and Colorado Rockies pitcher Jake Bird were ejected for sparking a benches clearing skirmish during an afternoon Mother’s Day Game between the two teams.
Harper charged toward Bird after the pitcher appeared to trash talk after forcing Phillies shortstop Bryson Stott into the final out of the inning.
Bird also stuck his tongue out at the former MVP and clapped toward the Phillies’ dugout, where Harper — who was not on the field at the time of the out — initially was.
“I get emotion,” Harper told reporters after the game. “I understand getting fired up for an inning and stuff like that, but once you make it about a team or make it about yourself and the other team, that’s when I’ve kind of got a problem with it.”
Benches cleared following the exchange to end the top of the seventh inning as the Rockies led 4-0, but there were no fisticuffs outside of pushing and shoving.
Harper, who recently returned from Tommy John surgery, attempted to take on Rockies players while seemingly still less than 100 percent.
“After that point, I went out there just to go,” Harper said. “J.T. (Realmuto) was right behind me. Taijuan (Walker), same thing. I appreciate my teammates for coming out with me and doing that. It was the heat of the moment.”
Phillies manager Rob Thomson was also ejected.
“A guy yelling in your dugout? That shouldn’t happen,” Thomson said. “Flat-out, that shouldn’t happen.”
Harper continued talking as teammates and coaches restrained him, even afterwards once the general calamity settled.
This also came less than 24 hours after Harper slugged a two-run homer in what became a 7-4 win over the Rockies.
Once we got out there, (Bird) just flew into the dugout and went away,” Harper said. “Nobody really saw him after he did what he did.”
The Rockies subsequently won the game 4-0, avoiding a road sweep for the Phillies, who won the previous two games in Colorado.
“I get a little emotional on the mound sometimes,” said Bird, who added his comments toward the dugout weren’t directed at anyone in particular. “It’s a good team. It was a big moment. I got a little emotional out there. They took exception to it.”
“He’s a great player,” Bird said of Harper. “He plays with emotion. I love that he plays with emotion. He’s a player I look up to.”
— with AP
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Colorado funeral home owners plead guilty to corpse abuse after nearly 200 bodies found decomposing
The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling hundreds of bodies in room-temperature conditions inside a dilapidated building and giving loved ones concrete instead of ashes have pleaded guilty to corpse abuse.
Jon and Carie Hallford, who own the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to 191 counts of abuse of a corpse on Friday.
“The bodies were [lying] on the ground, stacked on shelves, left on gurneys, stacked on top of each other or just piled in rooms,” prosecutor Rachael Powell said in court.
Their loved ones are “intensely and forever outraged,” she added. Some of the families were in the courtroom when they pleaded guilty.
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Jon and Carie Hallford, who own the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to 191 counts of abuse of a corpse on Friday. (Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)
Crystina Page, whose son died in 2019, said outside the courtroom on Friday: “He laid in the corner of an inoperable fridge, dumped out of his body bag with rats and maggots eating his face for four years. Now every moment that I think of my son, I’m having to think of Jon and Carie, and that’s not going away.”
The Hallfords also faced charges of theft, money laundering and forgery, which were dismissed with their plea deals.
The couple spent $882,300 in COVID relief funds on things like vacations, cosmetic surgery, car and tuition for their child.
Jon Hallford could serve 20 years in prison under the plea deal and Carie Hallford could serve 15 to 20 years.
Six people who objected to the plea deals, calling their recommended sentences insufficient, will get a chance to speak before they’re sentenced in April.
Fremont County deputies guard the road leading to the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Oct. 5, 2023. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP/The Gazette via AP)
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If the judge rejects the plea deal, the case may still go to trial.
The Hallfords already pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October in connection with their misuse of funds.
The accusations go back to 2019 and the improperly stored bodies were discovered after neighbors reported a stench coming from the building.
A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Oct. 5, 2023. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)
Authorities in hazmat gear found bodies stacked on top of each other, some so decayed they couldn’t be identified, and the place was infested with bugs.
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Following the gruesome discovery, Colorado has tightened funeral home regulations.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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