A Boston Red Sox fan will remember Game 5 of the World Series for all the wrong reasons after allegedly being attacked by a group of Los Angeles Dodgers fans.
Josh Davis woke up in the emergency room at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles with a fractured nose, five stab wounds and several missing teeth shortly after the Red Sox clinched a fourth World Series title in 15 years by beating the Dodgers 5-1 in Game 5 at Dodger Stadium.
The 36-year-old said he was attacked on his way back home in Koreatown on Sunday night when he came across two men, one of whom was wearing a Dodgers jersey, who took exception to him wearing his Red Sox hat.
"Get your [expletive] out of here, this is Dodger country right here," the man allegedly said to Davis, as reported by New England Cable News Boston (NECN).
Before he knew it, Davis, a native of Massachusetts who now lives in Los Angeles, was set upon by a large group of people and believes he was stabbed with a screwdriver.
"It should never come to beating the crap out of people, you know what I mean?" he explained. "I got a lot of Dodger fan friends [...] I'm not going to let one bad apple ruin it for me [...] or 10."
The unfortunate Red Sox fan took to Facebook on Wednesday afternoon to update friends and family about his condition, explaining he also had his phone and wallet stolen in the incident.
"One thing I have learned from this is to not indulge in trash talk with people u don't know," he wrote. "After getting into a brawl with two Dudes the third one whistled for more help, in the blink of an eye I was surrounded by a large group of them and started to fear for my life and just started going Tanzanian devil after they started striking me.
"I wanted to keep this private at first due to them stealing my phone and wallet because they have a lot of my information! Now I'm hoping justice is served after the investigation."
According to NECN, Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the case as an assault with a deadly weapon and a robbery, but no arrests have been made.
The incident has brought back memories of the horrendous attack on Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who was brutally beaten at Dodger Stadium in March 2011 and now lives with brain damage.
A paramedic at the time of the incident, Stow now requires round-the-clock care after he was assaulted by Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood.
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