The Yankee fan who's accused of ramming her car into a crowd of jeering Red Sox fans will remain jailed without bail on a second-degree murder charge, a judge in Nashua, N.H., ordered yesterday.

Ivonne Hernandez, 43, is accused of killing Matthew Beaudoin, 29, of Nashua, and injuring Maria Hughes, 21, of Nashua, after a confrontation with a group of Boston Red Sox fans. Witnesses told the Nashua Telegraph an argument began at a local bar where Hernandez said she was a Yankees fan, and spilled outside where a group chanted, "Yankees suck!"

Police said Hernandez told them she only meant to scare them and assumed people would jump out of the way. Hernandez also is charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated and two counts of reckless conduct.

I love going to Sox-Yanks games.  I've been to them in Boston and New York and it's always a good game.  I wear my Boston gear to New York, andYankees fans like to remind me how much my team sucks, how many championships they've won, etc.  But I never feared for my safety a game. 

I enjoy a good baseball fight.  A good bench-clearing brawl doesnt happen all that often (kinda like a good goalie fight in hockey.)  But with the Red Sox andYankees, a good brawl is always lurking around the corner.

This isnt something new.  To name a few:

We can go back to 1938 when Joe Cronin of the Sox and the Yanks Jake Powell fight on the field and beneath the stands at Yankee Stadium. (Both are fined and suspended for 10 days.)   

1952:Jimmy Piersall and New York's Billy Martin exchange blows in the tunnel beneath the stands at Fenway Park.

1973:Munson and Fisk duke it out after a collision at the plate.

1976: Lou Piniella barrels into Carlton Fisk at the plate in Yankee Stadium, and Sox pitcher Bill Lee cracks his collarbone in the subsequent fight.

2003:Yankees bench coach Don Zimmerlunges at Pedro Martinez, who throws the 73-year-old to the ground during a brawl in a playoff game. Later in the game, Yankee reliever Jeff Nelson and right fielder Karim Garcia get into a fight with a Fenway Park groundskeeper after he cheered for Boston in the Yankees' bullpen.

2004:Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek and Alex Rodriguez exchange heated words after A-Rod is hit by a pitch. Varitek shoves Rodriguez in the face, and a brawl breaks out. 

May 4, 2008:  The rivalry is offcially out of control.

Ivonne Hernandez of New Hampshire was arrested and charged with second degree murder for running her car into a crowd of people outside a Nashua bar, killing 29 year-old Matthew Beaudoin. 

The incident was allegedly caused by the crowd's chanting 'Yankees Suck'. Hernandez, a Yankee fan, claims she wanted to scare the group when she aimed her car at them, assuming they would jump out of the way.  Hernandez is now being charged with 2nd degree murder and being held without bail. 

A young man is dead because of his love for an American pastime. A game. 

I'm not saying that I've never heard or seen people getting into fights over the Red Sox-Yankees before.  I have even been known to exchange a few choice words.  But Matthew's family now has to deal with the fact that he died at such a young age for no good reason. 

It's times like this that I step back and realize, it is just a game. 

A woman accused of running down a man in her car after a Red Sox-Yankees argument in a bar never hit her brakes as she accelerated toward the small group he was in, a prosecutor said Monday.

"She never braked, and she accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly at this group of people," prosecutor Susan Morrell said of Ivonne Hernandez, who is charged with reckless second-degree murder in the death early Friday of Matthew Beaudoin, 29.

Authorities won't describe the argument beforehand in Slade's Food & Spirits, but witnesses said it heated up when Hernandez identified herself as a New York Yankees fan. Like the rest of New Hampshire, Nashua, 45 miles northwest of Boston, is Red Sox country.

Bartender Tanya Moran said the argument spilled outside, and at least one person in a group that included Beaudoin began chanting ``Yankees suck!'' when they saw a Yankees sticker on Hernandez's car.

Hernandez, 43, allegedly gunned her car and struck Beaudoin and his friend Maria Hughes, 21. Hughes had only minor injuries, which Beaudoin's sister Faith said was because her brother shielded his friend.

Hernandez, of Nashua, was arrested at the scene. She acknowledged she had been drinking and refused to take a breath-alcohol test, said Morrell, a senior assistant attorney general. Hernandez said she had been in an argument with the group.

"She indicated to police that she wanted to scare this group of people. She thought they would get out of the way," Morrell said.

I can honestly say that I've been in several sticky situations with Sox fans, situations that have had me pitted against a group of unruly fans (or, them pitted against an unruly me). However, once a situation escalates to an unhealthy or dangerous level, sometimes you just have to take a step back and think about what you're fighting for. This is a terrible situation and the Yankee fan should be punished accordingly. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Matthew Beaudoin.