'The Terror At Yogi Berra?' Minor League Team Confronts Fans

LITTLE FALLS, NJ —Highlights of Thursday night's independent Frontier League baseball game between the Sussex County Miners and New Jersey Jackals appeared on national websites Friday - but for all the wrong reasons.

TMZ Sports posted a video online from the game at Yogi Berra Stadium in which players from the Miners are seen confronting fans in the stands - and players from both teams are trying to hold the angry players back - after a fan, or multiple fans, allegedly threw beer on the Sussex County players.

It was $1 beer night, and TMZ reported that "a fan had no problem throwing some suds at players during a break in the action," according to an eyewitness.

Players were all the way up in the second and third rows, getting in the faces of fans, TMZ wrote. However, other players intervened and held the angry players back before punches were thrown.

The fan who shot the video compared in the incident to the infamous "Malice at the Palace," a brawl that took place between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons fans during an NBA game in 2004. (Caution: this video contains expletives).

Barstool Sports and the New York Post also reported on the near brawl, and Barstool sports wrote that "some fans were kicked out of the game and some were arrested."

However, in a statement to NorthJersey.com, Montclair State Spokesperson Andrew Mees made no mention of arrests.

"By the time University Police arrived, players were already moving back into the dugout and Jackals personnel were in the process of ejecting several fans from the stadium," Mees said.

According to Mees, no injuries or complaints were reported and campus police remained at the stadium through the conclusion of the game to ensure no further tensions boiled over.

Neither police from Little Falls nor from nearby Montclair were called to respond to the incident, according to NorthJersey.com

TMZ reported that the Miners defeated the Jackals 15-14.