This is unfortunate and rather terrifying: The Texas Rangers went without reliever Tanner Scheppers in their extra-inning loss to the Indians in Cleveland on Friday night because he had been jumped by a group of young men outside the team hotel Thursday.
Scheppers said he was out getting food Thursday night when he was attacked and “sucker-punched.” He did not recall the time but did contact the police. A report was not filed after Scheppers said police told him it was unlikely that anybody would be apprehended.“They said it happens a lot, actually,” said Scheppers, who had a blackened left eye and two small cuts above his nose. “I’m just lucky nothing serious really happened. I’m good to pitch for (Saturday). I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Wait, hold on: It happens a lot? The Indians play in downtown Cleveland, and presumably visiting teams stay somewhere nearby. Are there really groups of young toughs just strolling down Euclid Avenue punching people in the face? Why did no one warn me about this before I went to Cleveland last month?
And Scheppers is a 6-4, 200-pound professional athlete. If he’s not safe from arbitrary punchings, where does that leave the rest of us?
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