Report filed against Garcia, Spencer
Port St. Lucie ? A pizza deliveryman who says he was roughed up by Karim Garcia and Shane Spencer filed a police report Monday, and investigators said they would try to question the New York Mets outfielders.
Sgt. Robert McGhee of the Port St. Lucie police department said Eric Vidal, 20, made an allegation of simple battery after a dispute in a parking lot last week.
No charges have been filed.
“If they would have just come back and apologized and seen if I was OK, this would have been over,” Vidal said in a telephone interview. “But now, it’s too late to turn back and accept it. I’ve been humiliated.”
Garcia and Spencer, competing for a spot on the roster, each were fined an undisclosed amount by the team. Mets general manager Jim Duquette apologized to a representative of the Big Apple Pizza restaurant chain.
“From our perspective, we’ve said all we’re going to say about the issue,” Duquette said. “I’m not going to be able to speak on any further developments.”
Exact details on what occurred outside the restaurant Thursday night are unclear.
Vidal said the dispute started when Garcia urinated outside the pizzeria. Vidal said he tripped over a curb during a subsequent verbal confrontation and wound up with Garcia and Spencer on top of him.
“My head hurts, my neck hurts, my side hurts. I think I might go to a hospital tonight,” he said.
Vidal said he was told by the restaurant to stay home from work Monday night, and that he was moving out of his father’s house. He said he had spoken to lawyers and was considering hiring one.
“I feel like I’m getting stepped on,” he said. “Those guys think they can just come down here and walk all over us.”
Garcia is facing assault and battery charges from a bullpen fight at Fenway Park during the AL championship series last year. Former Yankees teammate Jeff Nelson, a groundskeeper and Garcia all pleaded innocent.

