{"id":591520,"date":"2026-04-09T02:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591520\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:05:20","slug":"reynaldo-lopezs-suspension-reduced-by-mlb-after-angels-braves-brawl-with-jorge-soler-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591520\/","title":{"rendered":"Reynaldo Lopez’s Suspension Reduced By MLB After Angels-Braves Brawl with Jorge Soler on Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez reached a settlement with Major League Baseball to have his seven-game suspension reduced to five games upon appeal, according to Chad Bishop<\/a> of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez and Los Angeles Angeles outfielder Jorge Soler were initially given identical seven-game suspensions after fighting during Tuesday’s 7-2 Atlanta win.<\/p>\n

Soler also appealed his suspension and appeared in Wednesday’s matchup between the teams, homering for a second straight game. <\/p>\n

The outfielder felt it was “intentional” when L\u00f3pez threw up and in during Soler’s fifth-inning at-bat. He had homered off L\u00f3pez in his first at-bat and was hit by a pitch in his second time at the dish. Soler has also raked<\/a> against L\u00f3pez during his career, going 14-for-23 with five homers and three doubles in those matchups. <\/p>\n

“Obviously, I have good numbers against him,” he told reporters<\/a>. “After the home run and getting hit by a pitch after that, and then he missed way too high and close to my head. At this level, you can’t miss like that.”<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez denied trying to hit him. <\/p>\n

“It’s just a shame, the situation and how things unfolded,” he told reporters. “On my part, there was never any intent to hit him at any point. So again, it’s just a shame.”<\/p>\n

Atlanta manager Walt Weiss backed up L\u00f3pez’s remarks.<\/p>\n

“I know it didn’t look good because of Soler’s numbers against Lopey, and he hit a homer, he hit him. It didn’t look good,” he said. “Lopey’s not throwing at him. I don’t allow our pitchers to throw at people just because they can’t get ’em out. Our job is to get ’em out. But I understand why Soler got angry. And he’s a really mild-mannered guy. So I think the switch flipped for him. … There was no intent there. I just think that Lopey’s just overthrowing, because he’s had a hard time getting him out. But he’s certainly not trying to hit him.”<\/p>\n

L.A. manager Kurt Suzuki, meanwhile, backed up his player.<\/p>\n

“I don’t blame Jorge one bit,” he said. “You get thrown at your head, you have a family, a career. It’s dangerous. I know it happens. But if you ask any hitter and a ball gets thrown near their head, especially after hitting a homer, it’s not good.”<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Soler will have his suspension reduced on appeal. As for L\u00f3pez, he’ll be eligible to make his next start on Tuesday against the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez reached a settlement with Major League Baseball to have his seven-game suspension reduced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-591520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}