New York Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia got himself into a jam this past weekend in Toronto without even throwing a pitch against the Toronto Blue Jays' vaunted offense.
In a video posted Monday by TMZ, the 35-year-old was forcibly restrained from jumping into a brawl that broke out early Saturday morning outside a nightclub in downtown Toronto, hours after the Yankees secured a 4-3 victory over the Blue Jays.
Sabathia, who's scheduled to start Tuesday against the Minnesota Twins, was pushed into a cab and escorted away from the scene before the fight escalated.
"Bad decision on my part," Sabathia told Dan Martin and Zach Braziller from the New York Post on Monday. "I probably should have just kept quiet and got in the cab. I'm just glad I got in the cab before everything went down. But I didn't know anything that was happening. I didn't know that big fight and everything happened after."
He added: "I just flipped out. It happens. You don't hide. I go to dinner. I do different things. Sometimes … it was a bad night. They caught me at a bad time. Got a bad reaction. I was just leaving. It was literally 25 seconds of me and then I was gone."
Sabathia acknowledged the event has been made more difficult due to the fact he'll have to explain to his son what transpired.
"It's tough because I have a 12-year-old now and he has a cell phone and he'll see this and I got to explain this to him," Sabathia said. "That’s the toughest part: 'Dad had a bad night. Made a bad decision. Sometimes these things happen.'"
