1.   But to the hockey world, a fight is as natural as a brushback pitch is in baseball.

2.   First, he would dodge a brushback pitch.

3.   He said Clemens sent a similar brushback pitch his way when in hopes of intimidating him during his rookie year.

4.   His brushback pitch led to an exchange of hit batters and a five-game suspension for Martinez.

5.   How about a brushback pitch?

6.   Jockeys tend to develop reputations, the way baseball pitchers do by throwing brushback pitches.

7.   Maybe they would see a new kind of crackback block, brushback pitch, cheap foul.

8.   The owners, Kibler said, may have economic reasons for asking the commissioner to legislate the brushback pitches and brawls that inevitably accompany them.

9.   The two clubs have had a feisty relationship over the years that has included blowouts, brushback pitches and home-run derbies.

10.   There were no brushback pitches or bench-clearing brawls.