{"id":256978,"date":"2026-04-08T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256978\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:41:08","slug":"angels-jorge-soler-gets-into-fight-with-atlantas-reynaldo-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256978\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels&#8217; Jorge Soler gets into fight with Atlanta&#8217;s Reynaldo L\u00f3pez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Benches cleared between the Angels and Braves at Angel Stadium in the fifth inning Tuesday night after <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/jorge-soler-624585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jorge Soler<\/a> took exception with a high pitch thrown by Atlanta starter Reynaldo L\u00f3pez and charged the mound, with each player throwing punches.<\/p>\n<p>After the pitch, the two players stared at one another briefly before Lopez gestured at Soler, and the Angels batter charged the mound. L\u00f3pez was holding a baseball as he threw a punch and made direct contact to the side of Soler\u2019s face, with the ball partially hitting Soler\u2019s helmet.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Angels batter Jorge Soler, left, fights Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775623267_900_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Angels batter Jorge Soler, left, fights Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez in the fifth inning at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>(Ethan Swope \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>The benches quickly cleared and players separated Soler and L\u00f3pez after a brief, but intense skirmish that pushed out toward the first-base side of the diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Soler and L\u00f3pez were ejected from the game. Major League Baseball likely will suspend both players.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Players on the Angels and Braves rush the field after Jorge Soler and Reynaldo L\u00f3pez fight.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775623268_710_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Players on the Angels and Braves rush the field after Jorge Soler and Reynaldo L\u00f3pez fight at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>(Ethan Swope \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benches cleared between the Angels and Braves at Angel Stadium in the fifth inning Tuesday night after Jorge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19753,1426,13506,1732,57251,113619,2196,113618,57484,48,52,51,50933,47,50,49,10252,9442,80374,113042,1435],"class_list":{"0":"post-256978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-angel-stadium","9":"tag-angels","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-bench","12":"tag-exception","13":"tag-fifth-inning-tuesday-night","14":"tag-fight","15":"tag-high-pitch","16":"tag-jorge-soler","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-la-headlines","19":"tag-la-news","20":"tag-lopez","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","23":"tag-los-angeles-news","24":"tag-mound","25":"tag-player","26":"tag-punch","27":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","28":"tag-side"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}