Dodgers and Astros Clear the Benches after Head-High Pitches, Taunts - Retaliation?

Dodgers and Astros Clear the Benches after Head-High Pitches, Taunts - Retaliation?

Tuesday night, Los Angeles and Houston cleared their benches following an inning complete with near-headshots, a batter stepping on a pitcher's foot, and a strikeout taunt. https://www.closecallsports.com/2020/... During this modified season, have baseball's health and safety protocols taken a back seat to a festering score to be settled between one team embroiled in a sign-stealing scandal and another who lost the 2017 World Series to the former? LA pitcher Joe Kelly began the 6th inning of Tuesday's game by buzzing a 3-0 fastball above Houston batter Alex Bregman's head. Kelly then placed his foot in front of first base during a double-play attempt, resulting in batter-runner Michael Brantley stepping on the pitcher's foot, threw several inside pitches to Yuli Gurriel during a four-pitch walk, and nearly hit Carlos Correa with a head-high pitch before striking him out to end the inning, taunting the Astros while walking off the mound and inciting a benches-clearing brawl. For HP Umpire Alfonso Marquez and his crew, it means separating the teams, but despite Baseball's very-public health & safety protocol prescribing ejection for unsportsmanlike conduct in which opponents leave their respective positions (or dugouts) to engage in an on-field confrontation, no players, managers, or coaches were ejected. Has baseball's gesture to caring about the health, safety, and well-being of its on-field personnel jumped the shark nary one week into the modified 2020 regular season?