Mother and son brutally beat Mets fan outside Dodger Stadium: Report

A mother and son brutally beat a Mets fan after Friday night’s playoff game at Dodger Stadium — a bashing so savage, a friend of the victim says it caused the man to lose part of his skull.

Los Angeles police are still looking for the suspects and were planning to interview the unidentified victim who was in critical but stable condition, according to abc7.com.

The fight broke out around 10:30 p.m. in a parking lot after the Dodgers lost the opening game of the National League Division Series to the New York Mets when an argument between fans quickly escalated into violence, said police.

It wasn't clear whether those involved were Dodgers fans.

Detectives with the robbery-homicide division were interviewing witnesses and reviewing stadium surveillance footage, said authorities.

“We believe that it is a son and a mother who are responsible for this assault,” LAPD chief Charlie Beck said. “We believe that the weapon used were hands and feet.”

Witnesses said the victim was set upon and fell on his head.

“Embarrassed to be a Dodger fan as my Mets fan friend is in the hospital missing a piece of his skull after being hit by a lowlife,” a friend of the Mets fan posted on Twitter.

"I walked closer and there was a gentleman on the floor and was bleeding profusely from the head," witness Maria Cerecer told KABC-TV. "We got free rally towels that night, so they were holding the rally towels to his head."

This isn't the first time security at Dodger Stadium has come under national scrutiny. In 2011 an attack in the parking lot on opening day left San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow with brain damage. 

Two men were later caught and imprisoned after pleading guilty to the assault.

Stow sued the Dodgers and their former owner Frank McCourt, saying they were to blame for the attack because of insufficient security and lighting. 

He was awarded nearly $18 million for the incident.

For the deciding Game 5 of the NDLS on Thursday back in LA, Beck promised that cops would be out in force at Dodger Stadium.

“Particularly with the tensions between the teams right now and the fans obviously there has been a significant amount of rivalry here,” he said. “We will be a presence [at Game 5], there will be a sea of [LAPD] blue.”

Huge Dodgers fan takes in sun at Dodger Stadium (PHOTO)

Just call him the World's Biggest Dodgers Fan — and that's being kind.

A sunbathing baseball fan — who chose to strip down and catch some rays during the Nationals-Dodgers game Wednesday — has become an Internet sensation and is so obvious that it has theorists wondering if it was a set-up by TV host Jimmy Kimmel.

Well, this is happening at Dodger Stadium #dodgers pic.twitter.com/fbWJkc8uX5
— Greg Merideth (@gregofla) September 3, 2014

Glimpses of the sun-baked man — seen throughout the 5 hours and 34 minute day game were hard to miss in the background of the broadcast — and just as visible to fans in the stands.

Now the images of the satisfied-looking supporter —  complete with the empty beer cans and hot dog trays sitting next to him  — have gone viral around the world.

As Yahoo Sports' The Post Game reported, the unidentified man seemingly became meme-worthy just for stripping down on a sunny California day.

Social media has been buzzing with calls for Kimmel to track the Dodgers fan down and feature him on the show. Others suggested it may have even been a prank organized by the TV host himself.

I guess that's what you call big news in L.A.

'Rally Bear' banned from Dodger Stadium for six months

He showed up out of nowhere, was ejected in a flash but left an undeniably cheerful feeling in fans' hearts Monday night. Now the Los Angeles Dodgers "Rally Bear" has been slapped with a six-month ban from his home cave — Dodger Stadium.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the man behind the cute-and-cuddly suit was 50-year-old furniture store owner Mark Monninger of Rancho Cucamonga and he was hoping to promote the idea that the Dodgers should have a mascot.

"I'm not trying to promote any organization or cause.... I just want to show fans, this is what is out there, this is someone that can entertain you," he said (latimes.com). 

And the harmless stunt seemed to work.  The Dodgers did win that night.

Monninger was not arrested, but he faces the possibility should he violate his six-month suspension and show up. 

Down 3-to-1 in the NLCS against the Cardinals, it looks like the Dodgers are ready for their winter hibernation anyway.

Yankees bring out the A-List crowd at Dodger Stadium

What happens when you combine the Dodgers and Yankees — two of the most storied baseball franchises in history — with Tinseltown?  More high-wattage celebrities than your Ray-Bans can handle, that's what.

When the New Yorkers, with what recently seems like a B-List roster, invaded Dodger Stadium Tuesday night, there seemed to be more A-List stars sitting in the blue seats than strutting on your typical red carpet —  or at least a Lakers-Knicks game.

Chavez Ravine Tuesday was the place where big names from the world of sports, music and film got to chomp on Dodger Dogs and see up-and-coming Yasiel Puig and soon-to-be going Mariano Rivera  in the flesh.

Spotted in the stadium crowd were Rob Reiner, LL Cool J, Chris Paul, Kevin Durant, Jay-Z, Dodger legend Tommy LaSorda and team co-owner Magic Johnson. But the brightest Klieg was reserved for, who else, Jack Nicholson.

Not a B-Lister among the lot. Hooray for Hollywood.

Four arrested for beating in Dodger Stadium parking lot

A driver was beaten in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium after a game Sunday and four people have been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police reported today.

The driver, a man in his 20's, was listed in stable condition with cuts and scrapes to his face.  The Associated Press reports that the man was attacked after a minor collision with another car as he was pulling out of the parking lot.  Three men from another car also got involved.

"They basically held the victim down while the original suspect kicked and hit him about the head and face area while he was on the ground," said Sgt. David Armas.

A woman in thew victim's car who was eight months pregnant was not hurt but taken to the hospital as a precaution," said Armas.

The parking lot violence comes just 14 months after a San Francisco Giants fan was brutally beaten after last year's Los Angeles Dodgers opening day game.  In that incident, Bryan Stow was beaten into a coma and left brain damaged in the parking lot.  The Dodgers promised to beef up security after that notorious attack.

Armas said Dodgers security staff and uniformed off-duty Los Angeles police were at the stadium Sunday and responded quickly.

The four men arrested were all in their twenties and charged with suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon because the victim was kicked, said Armas.  One of them suffered bumps and scrapes to his face, "probably as a result of the victim defending himself," Armas said.

Armas said the four men did not appear to have any street gang affiliations.

"It was just a fender-bender that just got totally out of hand," Armas said.

Another fan with baseball glove fails miserably

A fan at last night's Dodgers-Diamondbacks game at Dodger Stadium took a roll over the wall along the third base line and landed flat on his back while trying to grab a foul ball.

Another example of a grown man, who brings a baseball glove to a game like a ten-year old, and fails spectacularly.

The epic fail added a little levity to the anticipated pitching match-up between Clayton Kershaw and Ian Kennedy.  The Dodgers went on to win 3-1.

It looked like the fan was trying to do some kind of handstand before hitting the dirt— a really bad handstand.

The tumbling fan immediately scrambled back over the wall to his seat under the glare of a stadium security guard and the only apparent injuries were a spilled beer and the dude's requisite bruised ego.  It's good to know that no Dodger Dogs were hurt during the making of this misplay.

Dodgers Hire Ex-NYC Police Commish To Assess Stadium Security

The Los Angeles Dodgers have hired former NYC Police Commissioner and LAPD Cheif William Bratton to evaluate security policies and procedures at Dodger Stadium after a 41 year-old man was severely beaten in the stadium parking on Opening Day.

Hundreds of people formed a prayer vigil outside County-USC Hospital in Los Angeles in support of the "critically-injured" San Francisco Giants fan while the announcement to hire Bratton was made.

Security at Dodger Stadium was questioned after Bryon Stow was set upon by two men on March 31.  Stow, a paramedic from Santa Clara, is in a medically-induced coma, according to a spokesman from the LAPD.  Stow suffered a fractured skull and trauma to his brain said his neurologist, Dr. Gabriel Zada.

The beating has outraged the community-at-large and has fans complaining that attending a Dodger home game has become very dangerous.  L.A. officials have been calling for better security around the park for years.

Bratton, who has headed police forces in Boston, New York City and L.A. was hired to help the beleaguered franchise quiet the outcries and prevent the public relations nightmare from happening again.

Team owner Frank McCourt--who is already embroiled in a messy divorce involving the team with his wife Jamie--said that acquiring the expertise of Bratton is a step in the right direction.  "Bill Bratton is widely credited with spearheading modern community policing in America," said McCourt.  "There is no one better to lead a top-to-bottom review of our current practices and make recommendations to be implemented now and into the future."

Bratton was appointed as NYC Police Commissioner by  Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1994.  For two years, Bratton was credited with being a major force in modernizing the force and turning the crime-ridden streets into safe havens.

The reward for the arrest of Stow's two Dodger-clad assailants has increased to over $100,000.

According to the LAPD, Giants fan Stow and his friends were leaving Dodger Stadium when two men taunted then hit Stow from behind.  He was kicked while on the ground.  The suspects are described as male Hispanics between the ages of 18 and 25.

According to L.A. County supervisor Michael Antonovich, the fright factor outside the ballpark is real.  "For anyone to suggest security at Dodger  Stadium is adequate is simply putting their head in the sand," he said.