{"id":625294,"date":"2026-05-05T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:19:08","slug":"mlb-issues-three-game-suspension-to-chris-devenski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625294\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Issues Three-Game Suspension To Chris Devenski"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that Pirates righty Chris Devenski<\/a> has been given a three-game suspension and an undisclosed fine for what the league believes to have been intentionally throwing at Reds infielder Sal Stewart<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s game.\u00a0 That will go into effect tonight, unless Devenski files an appeal. He\u2019d remain eligible to pitch while the appeal process plays out. Pittsburgh skipper Don Kelly<\/a> also received a one-game suspension and an undisclosed fine. He\u2019s expected to serve his suspension tonight.<\/p>\n

The incident Saturday occurred in a game the Pirates led 15-to-6 (video link<\/a>). Stewart stepped into the batter\u2019s box and called time just as Devenski was coming set. He stepped out briefly, and upon digging back in was greeted with a 92 mph waist-high sinker that tailed inside and nearly hit Stewart. Although he managed to jump out of the way, Stewart was clearly perturbed and barked at Devenski, who walked several steps toward home plate. The umpiring crew convened and ultimately ejected Devenski, prompting an angry visit from Kelly.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing hard in to start an at-bat,\u201d Devenski said after the game when asked about the ejection (video link<\/a>). \u201cI know the guy likes to dive over [the plate]. That\u2019s about it. Just trying to execute my pitch there, and I think he took it the wrong way. It is what it is, but I\u2019m not going to back down from anything, either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devenski plainly stated that the pitch wasn\u2019t intentionally thrown at Stewart. \u201c[I\u2019ve] been around the game a long time \u2026 If I was going to do anything like that\u2026\u201d Devenski trailed off with a light chuckle, seemingly implying that the location might\u2019ve been different had there been true intent behind the pitch. \u201cNot in that situation. Just trying to get outs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Pirates only selected Devenski to the major league roster last Friday. He\u2019d been pitching in Triple-A Indianapolis on a minor league contract and pitching quite well, allowing just one run with a 15-to-2 K\/BB ratio in 10 2\/3 innings. He\u2019s pitched 2 2\/3 frames with the big league club and allowed a pair of runs on five hits and no walks with three strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Time will tell whether Devenski appeals and whether the suspension holds up. If he opts not to appeal, the Pirates will play a man down for the next three games. On the plus side, the \u2018pen is very fresh after Braxton Ashcraft<\/a> worked 7 2\/3 brilliant innings Sunday and the team had an off day yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that Pirates righty Chris Devenski has been given a three-game suspension and an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[270731,65822,102853,99],"class_list":["post-625294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chris-devenski","tag-don-kelly","tag-sal-stewart","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625294","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=625294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}