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intense that game was and what it means to everybody that was involved," Canadian slugger Justin Morneau said.
• Multiple fights erupted after Canada's Rene Tosoni was hit in the back by a pitch from Arnold Leon with the score 9-3 at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. It quickly turned into a wild scene, as chaotic as any on a major league field in recent years.
• Even when the fisticuffs ended, Canadian pitching coach Denis Boucher was hit in the face by a full water bottle thrown from the crowd. Canada shortstop Cale Iorg angrily threw the bottle back into the crowd.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Sunday, March 10, the 69th day of 2013. There are 296 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 10, 1913, former slave, abolitionist and Underground Railroad "conductor" Harriet Tubman died in Auburn, N.Y.; she was in her 90s.
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• On this date:
• In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
• In 1863, Edward, the Prince of Wales (and future King Edward VII), married Princess Alexandra of Denmark at Windsor Castle.
• In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell's assistant, Thomas Watson, heard Bell say over his experimental telephone: "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
• In 1880, the Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.
• In 1893, Ivory Coast became a French colony.
• In 1933, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake centered off Long Beach, Calif., resulted in 120 deaths.
• In 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)
• In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)
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