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Gunshots at ballpark halt Mexican League game

A Mexican League game between the Reynosa Broncos and the Monterrey Sultans was shut down Sunday after shots rang through the ballpark.

A Mexican League game between the Reynosa Broncos and the Monterrey Sultans was shut down Sunday after shots rang through the ballpark.

From the BBC:

Witnesses said the baseball players ran for cover and dived into their dugouts.

Panic spread through the crowd of spectators after a group of unknown gunmen exchanged fire on Sunday.

Baseball officials then took the decision to stop the game.

There are no reports of casualties.

The suspicion is that the gunshots at Adolfo Lopez Mateo are related to gangs fighting over drug turfs. Technically, the Mexican League is an MiLB-affiliated league, afforded a Class AAA status. We're trying to track down the last time a MiLB ballgame was shut down due to gunfire; there was, famously, the 1959 game at Gran Stadium, home of the International League's Havana Sugar Kings, where future Twin Leo Cardenas (playing shortstop for the Sugar Kings) and Rochester Red Wings player-coach Frank Verdi were downed by celebratory gunshots after the Castro revolution. The game was shut down, the Red Wings left town and the Sugar Kings eventually finished the season in Jersey City.

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