{"id":630,"date":"2025-06-20T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/630\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:39:07","slug":"mlb-suspends-roberts-shildt-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/630\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Suspends Roberts, Shildt, Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major League Baseball has announced suspensions related to last night\u2019s benches-clearing incident between the Padres and Dodgers. San Diego closer\u00a0Robert Suarez<\/a><\/strong> was suspended three games for \u201cintentionally hitting\u201d\u00a0Shohei Ohtani<\/a><\/strong> with a pitch. Suarez, who was also hit with an undisclosed fine, has elected to appeal and remains on the roster during that process.<\/p>\n

Additionally, both managers were suspended for one game for \u201cunsportsmanlike conduct and for contributing to inciting the benches-clearing incident.\u201d Managers do not get an appellate right, so Dave Roberts and Mike Shildt will both be unavailable tonight. The Dodgers are hosting the Nationals, while the Padres welcome the Royals to Petco Park. Roberts told Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic<\/a> that bench coach Danny Lehmann will manage tonight\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

The suspensions are related but not all directly from the same sequence. The managers were suspended for their actions in the top of the ninth inning. Dodgers righty\u00a0Jack Little<\/strong><\/a>, making his MLB debut, hit\u00a0Fernando Tatis Jr.<\/a><\/strong> on his right hand with a 93 MPH fastball. It seems unlikely that Little intended to throw at Tatis, which is reflected in the league\u2019s decision not to impose any discipline. (The Dodgers optioned Little back to Triple-A tonight.)<\/p>\n

It was the second time that Tatis had been hit in the series, though. He\u2019d also been hit with a pitch during these teams\u2019 previous series one week before. The final beaning came at the end of a very tense four-game set. Dodger outfielder Andy Pages<\/a><\/strong> accused\u00a0Dylan Cease<\/a><\/strong> of throwing at him on Monday. Tatis,\u00a0Jose Iglesias<\/a><\/strong> and Ohtani were all plunked on Tuesday.\u00a0Stephen Kolek<\/a><\/strong> drilled Pages again on Wednesday, and\u00a0Lou Trivino<\/a><\/strong> had hit\u00a0Bryce Johnson<\/a><\/strong> with a cutter earlier in Thursday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Shildt raced out of the dugout to check on Tatis after Little had plunked him. San Diego\u2019s skipper had some choice words for the Dodger dugout along the way. That prompted Roberts to come onto the field. He got into Shildt\u2019s face and bumped him, leading both dugouts to empty. Both managers were ejected. Tatis was removed from the game as an injury precaution. Little stayed in to finish the inning. The Padres had some trepidation about Tatis\u2019 initial imaging results, but he\u2019s fortunately back in the lineup tonight.<\/p>\n

Suarez then came out of the bullpen for the bottom of the ninth. He hit Ohtani on the right shoulder with a 100 MPH fastball on a 3-0 count. That probably would\u2019ve caused benches to clear again had Ohtani not quickly signaled to the L.A. dugout not to do so. Suarez and acting manager Brian Esposito were tossed by home plate umpire Marvin Hudson. San Diego\u2019s closer told reporters tonight through an interpreter that he did not intend to hit Ohtani (video provided<\/a> by 97.3 The Fan). MLB disagreed and imposed the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball has announced suspensions related to last night\u2019s benches-clearing incident between the Padres and Dodgers. San…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[875,876,877,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dave-roberts","9":"tag-mike-shildt","10":"tag-robert-suarez","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114718334185915689","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}