{"id":258208,"date":"2026-04-08T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258208\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:22:08","slug":"angels-jorge-soler-and-braves-reynaldo-lopez-receive-7-game-suspensions-following-brawl-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258208\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels&#8217; Jorge Soler and Braves&#8217; Reynaldo L\u00f3pez receive 7-game suspensions following brawl | Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jorge-soler-reynaldo-lopez-braves-angels-8305af2fa811240115ce864fb9035597?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">participation in a brawl<\/a> Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s game but will be on hold as each player is appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Soler homered off L\u00f3pez in the first inning of Tuesday night&#8217;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<p>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<p>The right-handed L\u00f3pez held the baseball in his right hand as he used it to throw a punch at Soler.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2454],"class_list":["post-258208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258208","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=258208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}