Manny Machado, Yordano Ventura suspended for brawl

Marc Lancaster

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Manny Machado and Yordano Ventura have been suspended by Major League Baseball after Tuesday's bench-clearing incident in Baltimore.

Machado was banned four games for charging the mound and fighting, and Ventura got nine games — a maximum of two starts, essentially — for intentionally throwing at the Orioles shortstop and fighting, according to an MLB release.

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Both are appealing and will continue to play until their appeals are heard. Machado was in the lineup for the Orioles' game at the Blue Jays on Thursday night. 

The pair squared off at Camden Yards after Machado was hit in the back by a Ventura fastball in the fifth inning and charged the mound. Their Orioles and Royals teammates joined them in the middle of the field and various side skirmishes broke out.

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Both players have previously served MLB suspensions for on-field incidents — a seven-game ban for Ventura in 2015 and five games for Machado in 2014.

 

 

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Marc Lancaster joined The Sporting News in 2022 after working closely with TSN for five years as an editor for the company now known as Stats Perform. He previously worked as an editor at The Washington Times, AOL’s FanHouse.com and the old CNNSportsIllustrated.com, and as a beat writer covering the Tampa Bay Rays, Cincinnati Reds, and University of Georgia football and women’s basketball. A Georgia graduate, he has been a Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 2013.