Yankees Starter CC Sabathia Has To Be Held Back Outside Toronto Nightclub

Sabathia is seen yelling and pointing as a brawl begins to break out in the early morning hours on Saturday outside a Toronto nightclub, in video published Monday by TMZ.

He did admit fault, saying “it was a bad decision on my part”, via ESPN. Instead, as TMZ notes, a friend seems to have pushed him into a cab before the chaos moved out onto the street.

Sabathia has been scratched from the Yankees’ game tonight against the Minnesota Twins.

“(I’m) glad I ended up getting in the cab before everything that went down”, Sabathia said, according to the Daily News.

In any event, his team is coming off a very successful weekend taking two-of-three against the now second-place Toronto Blue Jays.

Gibson is winless in his last five starts but was strong against Texas last time out, allowing two runs on seven hits while striking out seven in six innings.

With the Yankees in a stretch of 16 straight games, Joe Girardi on Sunday left open the possibility of inserting a sixth man in the rotation at some point in that spell.