Announcer says "This is very close to getting out of control!" rather after that threshold had been crossed.

That's Pete Van Wieren, and the late Skip Caray chimes in later. I'm getting a little teary-eyed watching this thing. If Ernie Johnson, Sr. comes on I'll probably lose it altogether.

EDIT: And a Brad Komminsk sighting!

Wow, watching the video deeper, evidently the Padres threw at Perez in four straight at-bats.

Yeah, I remember watching that game. They did throw at him in every at bat. It was comical, after the initial warning every time they threw at him the pitcher and manager got ejected, by rule, so by the time they were able to actually hit him the "manager" was the assistant clubhouse attendant or someone.

I remember watching the Braves on TBS back in the day, when they gave us free baseball (cok suckers), Pascual covered first on a groundout to first and after getting the out he threw the ball to the right fielder. I guess to include the outfielders on the around the horn. What a character. RIP Pascual.

I had never heard this story before.

Me, neither. Reggie Smith seemed like one of the last guys you'd want to pick a fight with.

So many memories watching that...I had worked in marketing for the Richmond Braves while in college, so many of those guys I actually knew...some a little, some more. Tony Brizzolara, Glenn Hubbard, Gerald Perry, Brad Komminsk, Bruce Benedict, Dale 'I'm back in Richmond because I can't throw the ball back to the pitcher' Murphy, Eddie Haas...wow...I know I will watch this a bunch of times.

Was very sorry to hear about Pascual. As many here have said, he was a unique talent.

Seeing Bob Horner makes me recall him being booed at a Richmond-Atlanta exhibition because he had refused a rehab assignment to Richmond earlier in the season, making some disparaging remarks about the city as he did so. Jim Bouton was pitching for the R-Braves in a sort of tryout (he'd been pitching batting practice and eventually in games that season, it was one of the joys of my baseball existence to get to chat with him a few times) and he struck Horner out with a nasty knuckler and got a huge ovation. He was called up to Atlanta soon after.

Not sure if it was that team or not, but one year the R-Braves entire infield consisted of guys who either had a decent length ML career or at least a few cups of coffee...Benedict at catcher, Perry at first, Hubbard at second, Ramirez at short, and Jacoby at third.

I recall Tony LaRussa playing in Richmond one year. Wore wristbands. Couldn't hit.

So many guys, so many stories. One of the two biggest busts who was an R-Brave prospect in the eighties was a guy in that video, Brad Komminsk. The other was Wayne Nordhagen. Both of them hyped as 'can't miss'...but they did.

Many great TBS years, too, especially the strike year when they showed Richmond games instead. (That was a really good team.) At the end-of-the-season awards, the announcers anointed W&G Moving and Storage frogs Winnie and Gus as 'Frogs of the Year.' (They were on an outfield sign, and there were lights in their eyes that would be lit when a Brave came to bat in accordance with how many hits he had..one eye, one hit, and so on.)

Good times.

Hang in there, Pascual. The exit you're looking for is coming up soon.

Maybe it is the "skinny" players but Claudell Washington looks tall somewhere in the middle and he is 6'-0".

If Perez's attackers have not been brought to justice may they be doomed to an eternal circling of the perimeter highway.

multiple guys who died tragically in a few different ways (Moore, McSherry, Wiggins, Perez, was Show on that roster?).

And a two-armed Dave Dravecky.

If it's just an Expo curse, it also applies to Gary Carter and Hideki Irabu.

And Jeff Reardon. OK, not technically dead, but not well either.

Back in the day two friends and I had the 1987, 1988, and 1989 versions of Pursue the Pennant. We would occasionally combine all three sets of players and have giant drafts of all the guys. Every time the first pitcher picked was Pascual Perez 1988. The second pitcher picked was always Pascual Perez 1987. He didn't pitch much those two years, but he was incredibly effective.

Also, the between-the-legs pickoff move was always entertaining.

I, on the other hand, had the 1985 strat-o-matic set, and he was pretty much the worst starting pitcher in there. That just contributed to the fun though.

A unique character, and a horrible way for anyone to go. RIP.