Tommy Pham was on one Monday night.
During the Pittsburgh Pirates' 5-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays, the veteran outfielder set off a benches-clearing fracas, then decided to attack fans on social media.
The incident came with the Pirates leading 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh inning. Pham took a pitch from Brendon Little for ball four, then tossed his bat and began to jog to first. After a few steps he turned around and got into Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman's face, causing the benches empty as players raced onto the field.
Video is below.
Benches cleared in Pittsburgh after Tommy Pham bat flipped a walk, but cooler heads prevailed pic.twitter.com/wLkuXZJj7u
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) August 19, 2025
This seemed to come out of nowhere, and Heineman agreed. After the game he claimed he didn't say a word to Pham, and said, "You're probably just as confused as I am" about the incident. He added, "It was weird man. It was weird. It was unprovoked and super weird."
That pretty much describes most of Pham's career to this point.
Pham responded to that report on X (formely Twitter) with the following:
Bitching about a ball not being called a strike to the umpire when it’s clearly below the zone and away is disrespectful not only to the umpire but the hitter as well so like I said when I flipped the bat fuck him @KeeganMatheson dude has two years in the show I know the zone
— Tommy Pham (@TphamLV) August 19, 2025
That's when things escalated.
Tweets began pouring in responding to Pham's tantrum and he replied to a lot of them.
Things you wouldn’t say to my face for a 1000
— Tommy Pham (@TphamLV) August 19, 2025
Another user on the site captured some screenshots.
can't delete screenshots https://t.co/Mak2UxTo6y pic.twitter.com/dUpLJUe5jo
— Michelle ❤️🔥 (@smishrae) August 19, 2025
Pham, of course, is known for slapping Joc Pederson over a fantasy football dispute back in 2022. So this is right in line with that history.
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