Main League Baseball introduced on Friday night that Pittsburgh Pirates aid pitcher Dennis Santana has been suspended for 4 video games after video surfaced of him in an altercation with a fan at Comerica Park in Detroit on Thursday night time. The incident occurred late within the Pirates’ 8-4 win over the Tigers.
A number of fan movies confirmed Santana aggressively swinging at a fan — who gave the impression to be a Pirates fan — seated straight above the workforce’s bullpen, earlier than lastly being restrained by members of the teaching employees and bullpen.
Santana was requested concerning the incident after the sport, however wouldn’t go into any element as to what the fan mentioned to spark that response. He solely mentioned that the fan “crossed the road” a number of occasions and that he had by no means had something like that occur in his massive league profession.
Skilled athletes hear loads of heckling, and that’s very true for aid pitchers positioned straight beneath followers within the bullpen. It takes lots to get them to react. So it’s completely cheap to imagine that Santana is telling the reality that the fan mentioned one thing means over the road, and maybe repeatedly, to get that type of response.
However Main League Baseball remains to be not going to take these items flippantly and is at all times going to attract a daring line within the sand in the case of participant and fan interactions. You simply cannot go after the paying prospects. If they are saying or do one thing that’s over the road, there’s safety within the stadium to deal with it and take away them from the state of affairs. The league isn’t going to be happy with gamers taking issues into their very own fingers.
That’s not just for the security of individuals within the stands, but additionally for the security of the gamers themselves.
