father went to court and got the suspension eliminated<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cIf it\u2019s a game-changing homer, it\u2019s fine. Even when I\u2019m on the mound, it doesn\u2019t irk me. It\u2019s a human reaction and it\u2019s good for the game, just like a pitcher doing a fist pump after a big strikeout,\u201d said Toronto pitcher Max Scherzer, a three-time Cy Young Award winner. \u201cI side-eye someone if they hit a solo shot and their team is down 5-0. That doesn\u2019t jive with me. I don\u2019t like it when opponents or teammates do that. I feel the same way about Little Leaguers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rocco was ejected for what his family was told were actions deemed \u201cunsportsmanlike\u201d and \u201chorseplay,\u201d and an ejection results in an automatic one-game suspension.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know they could suspend people in Little League,\u201d Colorado outfielder Jordan Beck said. \u201cI think there\u2019s definitely a way to teach the game, but there\u2019s also fun for the kids, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
His father, Joe, is a lawyer and his dad filed suit. Judge Robert G. Malestein of New Jersey Superior Court ruled in favor of the Roccos, and Marco played for Haddonfield against Elmora Little League in a 10-0 loss Thursday in the opener of a four-team, double-elimination tournament at the Deptford Township Little League complex. Marco went 0 for 2 with two strikeouts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish nobody would do a bat flip. I\u2019m kind of traditional,\u201d Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson said before adding, \u201cBut let him play.\u201d<\/p>\n
A staid sport for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, baseball has embraced emotion in recent years. Jos\u00e9 Bautista\u2019s bat flip against Texas in a 2015 AL Division Series was featured in the video game MLB The Show 16.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a kid\u2019s game, Whether you\u2019re a kid or a major leaguer, we\u2019re in a have-fun era,\u201d Detroit catcher Jake Rogers said. \u201cIf you earn that moment, you earn that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
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AP Sports Writers Larry Lage and Noah Trister contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jazz Chisholm Jr., known for playing with flair, noticed when a Little Leaguer was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1558,793,30996,2009,30993,845,30994,381,363,2008,30997,1997,2005,1999,2004,369,2006,2007,5631,3234,480,30995,30998,99,12378,795],"class_list":["post-37966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-general-news","tag-jake-rogers","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-jos-bautista","tag-jwd-evergreen","tag-marco-rocco","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-wire","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nj-state-wire","tag-ny-state-wire","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-rob-thomson","tag-robert-g-malestein","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}