Los Kelly Dodgers hard-throwing reliever Joe Kelly has reduced his eight-game delay for throwing at Houston Astros players to five on appeal, ESPN sources Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel said. Kelly was initially given an eight-game penalty by MLB after his unfair pitches and demonstrative taunts cleared a situation of …
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He may be facing MLB anger, but Joe Kelly has plenty of players on his side. The Dodgers reliever received an eight-game suspension on Wednesday after pitching against Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa. Kelly is typically wild, but facing the Astros for the first time since it was discovered that …
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This is the online version of our daily newsletter, The Morning Win. Subscribe to get irreverent and incisive sports stories, delivered to your mailbox every morning. You may have noticed in the last six months that I’m not a huge fan of Rob Manfred. However, I have not been alone …
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In spring training, when the theft revelations were new and the injuries were fresh, Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Alex Wood made a prophetic comment when considering retaliating against the hitters of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Houston Astros this season. “Someone will take it into their own hands,” Wood said, …
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You’ll never believe it, but MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred screwed it up this week. I’m not talking about the way you allowed the Marlins to play amid a coronavirus outbreak that has ultimately affected 16 players and two coaches; is leveraging the league’s COVID test statistics using samples, not people, …
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