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, …
Read More »Joe Kelly’s suspension was not the only punishment MLB committed.
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, …
Read More »Dodgers’ Joe Kelly suspended 8 MLB games over incident with Astros
Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly received an eight-game suspension from Major League Baseball on Wednesday for his role in a bank cleanup showdown at Minute Maid Park in Houston on Tuesday night. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts received a one-game suspension and Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker was fined, MLB …
Read More »MLB investigates incident between Dodgers and Astros
Major League Baseball is investigating the Joe Kelly incident in Houston on Tuesday night, a source told ESPN’s Buster Olney. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ flamethrower reliever sent a 96mph fastball behind the head of Houston’s Alex Bregman in the sixth inning Tuesday night in further fallout from the 2017 Houston …
Read More »Dodgers-Astros breakdown: inside the sixth inning, which clears the banks and what follows
Tempers flared in the first Los Angeles Dodgers-Houston Astros matchup since an offseason in the aftermath of the 2017 Houston poster-stealing scandal, and Joe Kelly, a Dodgers reliever who was not part of the World Series of That season between the two teams, he was at the center of it …
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