sparking some interest

Two interesting things happened to the Mississippi Braves on Saturday night. They beat Mobile 7-3 at Trustmark Park for their season-high fifth straight win. They also got into a ninth-inning dustup with the BayBears, a benches-clearing incident resulting in several ejections. (Fines and/or suspensions may be in the offing.) Regrettable thought it may be, that’s the kind of thing that can light a fire under a club that seems to need it. A defining moment, perhaps. We’ll see. The M-Braves are now 15-19, 5½ games out of first place in the Southern League South with a trip to division leader Montgomery (21-14) coming up. Onetime big leaguer and Brandon native Brent Leach is scheduled to start tonight’s opener of the five-game series with the Biscuits, an M-Braves nemesis literally from Day One. A five-game series at Chattanooga follows the Montgomery trip. If these M-Braves have a move in them, it’s time to make it. P.S. Class A Asheville (Colorado Rockies) manager Joe Mikulik, the former Jackson Generals standout who famously — or infamously — went on a tirade in a 2006 game, was at it again on Friday. Mikulik threw another YouTube-worthy tantrum in a game at Charleston, S.C., “stealing” third base and giving it to a fan, among other things.