For a brief moment, it appeared as if the Joe Kelly Fight Club would make a comeback Saturday night at Fenway Park.
The Boston Red Sox reliever, who famously sparked a brawl with the New York Yankees by drilling Tyler Austin, inflicted similar pain on Houston Astros third baseman Alex Bregman by hitting him with a 100-mph fastball in the sixth inning in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.
Bregman seemed to take immediate exception to the beaning, glaring at the mound in what most assumed was a staredown of Kelly.
After the game, though, Bregman offered a different narrative of the tense moment, while also denyin…