ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler and Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez each received seven-game suspensions from Major League Baseball on Wednesday after they were ejected following their participation in a brawl Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Michael Hill, MLB\u2019s senior vice president for on-field operations, also announced the players received undisclosed fines. The suspensions were scheduled to begin with Wednesday’s game but will be on hold as each player is appealing.<\/p>\n
Soler homered off L\u00f3pez in the first inning of Tuesday night’s game. In his next at-bat, Soler was hit by a 96 mph fastball from L\u00f3pez. In the fifth, Soler charged the mound after L\u00f3pez threw a high-and-inside wild pitch that tipped off catcher Jonah Heim\u2019s mitt.<\/p>\n
As Soler began walking toward the mound, L\u00f3pez held up his hands as the two glared at each other before both started throwing punches.<\/p>\n
The right-handed L\u00f3pez held the baseball in his right hand as he used it to throw a punch at Soler.<\/p>\n
Players and coaches stormed out of the dugouts and bullpens and Braves manager Walt Weiss tackled Soler, the 2021 World Series MVP with Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler and Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,113680,57484,114035,2390,5341,5337,5338,5339,5340,113044,103558,113042,114034,113750],"class_list":{"0":"post-258115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-jonah-heim","12":"tag-jorge-soler","13":"tag-michael-hill","14":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","15":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","16":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","17":"tag-product-31999-ap-online-baseball-news","18":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","19":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","20":"tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","21":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","22":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","23":"tag-soler-lopez-fight-suspended","24":"tag-walt-weiss"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258115","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=258115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}