From Mr. October to a Seattle battle that irked one handbag-swinging 79-year-old fan, these are the memorable brawls in Brewers lore

Bench-clearing brawls like the one the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays played out Tuesday aren't all that common in Brewers history, but there have been some memorable ones, to be sure. Brewers pitchers Abner Uribe and Freddy Peralta were both suspended for their role in the fight, and manager Pat Murphy served the first game of a two-game suspension Wednesday.

How much do you remember from these memorable tussles in franchise history?

Cecil Cooper's three-homer night coincided with an unforgettable 1979 fracas

We've had Phil Garner vs. Terry Bevington, Carlos Gomez on Easter, Albert Belle and a few other easily recalled brouhahas. But nothing can top July 27, 1979.

The context was already perfect. The upstart Brewers franchise in (comparatively) small-town Milwaukee was rising to excellence for the first time, one year removed from the first winning season in its history. The big-city Yankees boasted big names like Reggie Jackson and Goose Gossage. But the Brewers weren't taking a backseat, and things got heated in a hurry when Brewers left hander Mike Caldwell threw high and tight to Jackson.

Jackson popped out during the at-bat, then flipped his bat toward the mound in Caldwell's direction as he ran to first. Caldwell took it upon himself to grab the bat and slammed it into the ground, with the intent to break it. Of course, Jackson didn't take kindly, rushing toward Caldwell as the benches poured onto the field.

Jackson was ejected — not Caldwell — and, after 10 minutes, the game resumed, with the Yankees playing under protest. But like Tuesday's game, which featured Tyler Black's debut, a homer-saving catch by Joey Wiemer and a controversial ejection that became a precursor to the brawl, there was another storyline brewing.

Cecil Cooper finished the game with three home runs; his third, off Gossage, broke a 5-5 tie in the ninth and gave the Brewers a walk-off victory, 6-5.

"It's one of the top two or three games I ever played," Cooper said. "I hit three homers off three different pitchers. And they were not slouches as pitchers."

The Brewers and Yankees kept tensions simmering, with another smaller incident two nights later that involved players coming off the bench.

Phil Garner vs. Terry Bevington

On July 22, 1995, the Brewers-White Sox rivalry went up a notch. In a 4-2 Sox win, Brewers manager Phil Garner went after White Sox manager Terry Bevington and incited a brawl that brought everyone on the field.

It started with an awkward tag play at third base involving Jeff Cirillo and Ozzie Guillen. Eventually, the two managers started shouting in each other's face and tangling, with Bevington putting Garner in a headlock and scratching Garner on the cheek.

"I cut myself shaving," Garner joked.

Both managers received four-game suspensions.

It was far from the first encounter between Garner and the White Sox.

On June 29 of that season, the Brewers lost a wild 17-13 game that turned into a brawl when Rob Dibble threw a pitch at Pat Listach's head. Earlier in the game, Bill Wegman and Garner had been ejected after Wegman drilled Ron Karkovice.

Listach charged the mound and punched at Dibble before getting dragged away by the catcher, Karkovice.

Garner had previously gotten into an argument with White Sox announcers in 1993.

Extra work leads to extracurriculars in 1993 vs. Oakland

A doubleheader at Milwaukee County Stadium on Aug. 24, 1993, proved to be a wild ride across the board.

The Brewers scored four runs in the seventh and four in the eighth of a 9-2 win in the first game, then won in the 13th inning of Game 2, 7-6. Milwaukee tied the game with two outs in the ninth against future Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley and churned out 21 hits overall. At least, those were the hits recorded in the hits column.

After surrendering the lead, Eckersley, who had the Brewers down to their last strike on back-to-back batters, began jawing at umpires about the strike zone, netting him and manager Tony LaRussa an ejection. Phil Garner came out to complain that the delay caused by LaRussa arguing was taking too long, and LaRussa went after Garner.

Dickie Thon was tackled by a much larger Athletics player, and B.J. Surhoff needed stitches to repair a cut after he was punched by former Brewers reliever Edwin Núñez. The games ended just before 2 a.m. Núñez was suspended 10 games, and both managers were suspended five games; seven were given suspensions overall.

It wasn't LaRussa's first encounter with the Brewers. Ben Oglivie charged the mound on May 5, 1980, after he was hit by a pitch by White Sox pitcher Mike Proly. Oglivie landed a punch, but LaRussa was the real casualty, dislocating his shoulder in the ensuing skirmish.

The forearm of Albert Belle

After a game May 31, 1996, Cleveland slugger Albert Belle received the latest in a string of suspensions — five in six years — when he was hit with a five-game ban for a forearm he threw to second baseman Fernando Viña during a tag between first and second base.

Viña and Belle had gotten tangled up on an attempted tag-and-throw double play earlier in the game, and the Brewers hit Belle with a pitch afterward in the eighth inning. When another grounder headed Viña's way, the Brewers second baseman again scrambled over to tag the runner, but this time, Belle violently decked Viña and sent him to the ground.

Belle was struck again with a pitch in his next at-bat in the ninth, and when Cleveland retaliated by throwing at catcher Mike Matheny, Matheny charged the mound and began firing punches at pitcher Julián Tavárez. In the scrum, Tavárez threw the person trying to restrain him from behind to the ground; that turned out to be an umpire. The Brewers lost, 10-4.

Easter Sunday with Carlos Gómez

Flashy Gold Glove centerfielder Carlos Gómez didn't always rub people the right way, and such was the case when he stopped to admire a fly ball April 20, 2014, at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. But it wasn't a home run, and Gómez hustled around for a triple. That rankled pitcher Gerrit Cole, who had words for Gomez at third base, a run-in that led to benches emptying.

Pirates catcher Travis Snider got the worst of it, absorbing a punch from Brewers catcher Martín Maldonado, which garnered a five-game suspension, while Gómez was docked three games. The Brewers went on to win the game in 14 innings on a Khris Davis home run, 3-2.

Gómez essentially represented a flashpoint in baseball circles — was it OK to show some celebration on a Major League Baseball diamond?

That was embodied even more so for Gómez on Sept. 25, 2013, when he homered against the Braves in a 4-0 Brewers win and admired his work a little too much for Braves catcher Brian McCann, who blocked home plate from Gómez upon the completion of his revolution around the bags. That turned into a benches-clearing moment that warranted multiple ejections, including Gómez (though not McCann).

Harvey's Wallbangers go slide-for-slide vs. Twins

On July 20, 1982, against the Twins, the eventual American League champion got into quite the fight with their neighbors to the west.

Kent Hrbek knocked Jim Gantner out of the game with a hard slide in the sixth inning trying to break up a double play, drawing the immediate ire of manager Harvey Kuenn. Robin Yount then knocked Minnesota’s Lenny Faedo back with a forearm in the bottom of the inning, and that immediately lit the fuse of a benches-clearing episode.

Minnesota outfielder Bobby Mitchell jumped Yount and a 10-minute brawl began. Brewers pitcher Bob McClure exchanged punches with Hrbek, and both players were ejected. The Twins wound up winning, 5-3.

Tony Plush becomes Tony Hush

Colorful center fielder Nyjer Morgan had many different alter egos, but Tony Plush became "Tony Hush" and wouldn't speak about the altercation Sept. 7, 2011, against the St. Louis Cardinals, when Morgan played a role in agitating a benches-clearing incident.

Morgan shouted toward Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter after a strikeout in the ninth inning, prompting benches to empty, though not with punches being thrown.

The altercation sticks in the collective memory of Brewers fans because Morgan became the face of Milwaukee's run to the 2011 NLCS, and the Cardinals were seen as the arch villain. In this case, though, the Cardinals got the last laugh with a 2-0 win in this game and a victory in the NLCS over the Brewers en route to a World Series championship.

A 1990 clash with the Seattle Mariners that might have been the biggest brawl of them all

Few brawls were as involved as the June 30, 1990, clash with Seattle.

Brewers pitcher Bob Sebra plunked Tony Jones in the ribs, igniting the tensions that had dated between the teams even to an incident in spring training. Jones and catcher B.J. Surhoff began exchanging words, and the ensuing fracas featured several stops-and-starts of fighting, creating a delay that lasted 20 minutes.

Sebra even admitted he threw at Jones intentionally.

"How stupid can you get?" Mariners manager Jim Lefebvre said. "I detest someone who has to hit someone because he can't get anybody out. He shouldn't be in the league. What is his ERA, anyway?"

It was 8.18, for what it's worth, and he didn't throw another pitch in the big leagues after aggravating a back ailment in the brawl. Sebra backed off and said he made those comments "in the heat of the battle," proclaiming that he threw on purpose.

The warring factions wound up spilling down the first base line. A 79-year-old woman named Agatha Doman leaned over the railing and famously walloped a Brewers player with a handbag in her angst over the brawl, although the moment wasn't caught on camera.

The involved parties include Greg Vaughn, Surhoff, Brewers manager Tom Trebelhorn (who got thrown to the ground and whose jersey became tattered), future Hall of Famer Randy Johnson, Jim Gantner, Robin Yount, Gary Sheffield, Dave Parker, Paul Molitor and a calm Ken Griffey Jr. trying to break things up. Seattle shortstop Jeff Schaefer was as involved as anyone, responsible for throwing Trebelhorn to the ground, and Brewers hitting coach Don Baylor called him a "minor league piece of (expletive)."

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The memorable brawls in Milwaukee Brewers history