New Orioles manager Tony Mansolino's Milwaukee memories include watching his dad get in a brawl

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Tony Mansolino’s first road game as the Baltimore Orioles’ interim manager came in the city where his dad worked as a Milwaukee Brewers coach for a couple of seasons in the late 1990s.

But the new skipper's most vivid Milwaukee memory — even though it wasn’t particularly pleasant — goes back about five years before that.

Mansolino’s dad was coaching against the Brewers as a Chicago White Sox assistant in the summer of 1993. Mansolino was in the Milwaukee County Stadium stands watching the game with Casey Harrelson, the son of former White Sox broadcaster Ken “Hawk” Harrelson.

“I remember sitting behind home plate, and the next thing you know there was a lot of ruckus going on over by the first base dugout,” Mansolino recalled Monday during his media availabilty before the Orioles fell 5-4 to the Brewers for their seventh straight loss. “It turned out it was my dad and Phil Garner getting in a fight on the field.”

Mansolino was working as the White Sox first base coach and Garner was managing the Brewers at the time. According to The Associated Press account of the game, an angry Mansolino headed toward the Milwaukee dugout in the eighth inning and Garner came out to approach him, sparking a bench-clearing scuffle.

Video footage of the skirmish shows White Sox players Bo Jackson and Tim Raines restraining Mansolino, who was ejected from the game. The incident occurred after a pitcher for each team hit a batter earlier in the game, with Milwaukee’s Cal Eldred hitting Robin Ventura in the sixth and Chicago’s Jeff Schwarz plunking John Jaha in the seventh.

“I don’t know the whole story,” Tony Mansolino said. “I just remember watching it and being pretty terrified as a kid.”

Tony Mansolino, now 42, noted the story doesn’t end there. Garner ended up getting Doug Mansolino to join his Brewers coaching staff in 1998. Doug Mansolino went on to be part of Garner’s coaching staffs with the Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros as well.

“That was the start of the relationship,” Tony Mansolino said.

Mansolino is still seeeking his first victory since taking over as the interim manager for the Orioles, who fired Brandon Hyde on Saturday. Mansolino, a former minor league manager, had been working as Baltimore’s third base coach.

He said he should benefit from having a couple of days to adjust to his new assignment. The flight to Milwaukee gave him an opportunity to prepare for this series and just let everything sink in.

“Being fully honest, absolutely a ton of anxiety Saturday and Sunday. I didn’t sleep a whole lot,” Mansolino said. “Just going through the information and just getting my mind prepared for what the job is, I slept last night, which was a really nice feeling waking up today.”

He isn’t back at Milwaukee County Stadium, which was torn down in 2001. The Brewers now play at American Family Field, a stadium formerly known as Miller Park.

But the demolition of the old stadium couldn’t erase Mansolino’s memories of watching his dad get in a brawl here about three decades ago.

“When I think about being in Milwaukee,” he said, “that’s definitely what I think about.”

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Baltimore Orioles interim manager Tony Mansolino walks to the dugout after a mound visit against the Washington Nationals during the sixth inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 18, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Baltimore Orioles interim manager Tony Mansolino looks on from the dugout during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals Sunday, May 18, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday fired off another warning to the government of Cuba as the close ally of Venezuela braces for potential widespread unrest after Nicolás Maduro was deposed as Venezuela's leader.

Cuba, a major beneficiary of Venezuelan oil, has now been cut off from those shipments as U.S. forces continue to seize tankers in an effort to control the production, refining and global distribution of the country's oil products.

Trump said on social media that Cuba long lived off Venezuelan oil and money and had offered security in return, “BUT NOT ANYMORE!”

“THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA - ZERO!” Trump said in the post as he spent the weekend at his home in southern Florida. “I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” He did not explain what kind of deal.

The Cuban government said 32 of its military personnel were killed during the American operation last weekend that captured Maduro. The personnel from Cuba’s two main security agencies were in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, as part of an agreement between Cuba and Venezuela.

“Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years,” Trump said Sunday. “Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will.”

Trump also responded to another account’s social media post predicting that his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will be president of Cuba: “Sounds good to me!” Trump said.

Trump and top administration officials have taken an increasingly aggressive tone toward Cuba, which had been kept economically afloat by Venezuela. Long before Maduro's capture, severe blackouts were sidelining life in Cuba, where people endured long lines at gas stations and supermarkets amid the island’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Trump has said previously that the Cuban economy, battered by years of a U.S. embargo, would slide further with the ouster of Maduro.

“It’s going down,” Trump said of Cuba. “It’s going down for the count.”

A person watches the oil tanker Ocean Mariner, Monrovia, arrive to the bay in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

President Donald Trump attends a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)