Fallout from Sunday Brawl Announced by MLB

Rougned Odor the second baseman for the Texas Rangers was given a suspension of 8 games for landing a straight right to the face of Jose Bautista a slugger for the Toronto Blue Jays this past Sunday.

Major League Baseball officials announced the suspensions late Tuesday. Bautista was given a one-game suspension for his role in the brawl and comments made after the game.

In all, 14 players and coaches were disciplined by MLB for roles they played in the brawl.

Elvis Adrus a shortstop for Texas was given a one game suspension for the “aggressive actions he took during the brawl.” Adrus served the suspension on Tuesday versus Oakland.

Jeff Bannister the manager of the Rangers called the rules fair for the punishment as they are there for an important reason, we live by them and we move on.

Manager John Gibbons of the Blue Jays was given a three-game suspension. He was ejected early in the game on Sunday, but returned when the brawl broke out. Tim Leiper the Blue Jays’ first base coach received a ban of one game for coming back into the dugout following his ejection. The two were also give fines that were undisclosed.

Toronto will be managed by DeMarlo Hale its bench coach while the three-game suspension to Gibbons is being served. That ban started on Tuesday night in the Blue Jays loss to Tampa Bay 12-2.

Gibbons, who was given a one-game suspension last August for coming back onto the field during an incident with the Royals after having been earlier ejected, said he has been surprised by the three-game suspension for the Sunday incident.

Even though Gibbons knew punishment would follow, he said he had returned to the field so he could protect Toronto players and calm the situation.

Gibbons declined to comment as to whether he agreed with the Odor 8-game suspension. He said he could not worry about Odor, as he had too many other things to worry about.

Odor was also fined $5,000 according to an online sports site. He as well as Bautista appealed the suspensions.

Prior to Tuesday’s loss to Oakland, Odor said he knew a suspension was coming but would wait out his appeal to see if the suspension is reduced.

Bautista played on Tuesday night after appealing his suspension and hit a two-run home run for Toronto’s runs in the game.

On Monday, Odor told reporters he did not regretted the fight or hitting Bautista.