Major League Baseball has suspended Los Angeles Angels right fielder Jorge Soler and Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Reynaldo Lopez for their scuffle in Anaheim on Tuesday.
ESPN MLB insider Jeff Passan first reported Wednesday that Soler and Lopez had each been suspended seven games for their bench-clearing brawl.
MLB later reduced Lopez’s suspension to five games. Soler, meanwhile, is appealing the decision, which will pause the punishment until the situation is resolved.
What spurred Jorge Soler-Reynaldo Lopez fight?
Soler and Lopez threw haymakers during the bottom of the fifth inning of Tuesday’s game. The tension had been bubbling before the altercation.
Soler homered off Lopez in the first inning. The pitcher subsequently hit him with a pitch in the third inning, though it’s unclear if that was retaliation for the earlier moonshot.