If you're a baseball fan looking for a fight at Dodger Stadium during Thursday night's NLDS Game 5, best be careful who you start stuff with.
Police officers plan to go undercover at Dodger Stadium for NLDS Game 5, after the Major League Baseball playoff series has turned violent on and off the field.
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"Literally hundreds of Los Angeles police will be out there, both in uniform and undercover," Los Angeles Police Department Commander Andrew Smith told the New York Daily News. "We have them dressed in undercover gear so they look just like a fan of one or another teams, so people will never know whether the person standing next to them with a Mets jersey is an LAPD officer or not."
The contentious series has already seen major injuries on the field and thanks to at least one fan fight.
After Game 1 of the series on Friday, a mother and son allegedly beat a Mets fan so severely outside Dodger Stadium that the victim reportedly had to have part of his skull removed.
On the field, meanwhile, Dodgers second basemen Chase Utley broke the leg of Dodgers shortstop Ruben Tejaba with a vicious slide in Game 3 of the series. That has severely ratcheted up tensions on both sides as debate swirls about whether or not Utley's violent slide was a dirty play.
The alleged attack after Game 1 was not the first time rival fans have been viciously beaten at Dodger Stadium. In 2011, a San Francisco Giants fan named Brian Stow was beaten so brutally that he was left paralyzed. Stow was awarded at $14 million settlement -- money a shady insurance system is doing its best to take from him, but that's a separate story.
As for the attack in Game 1 of this year's NLDS? "We've got plenty of leads and our detectives are working diligently, but we have not made an arrest so far," Smith told the Daily News.
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