Two players start Monday evening with suspensions. Matt Barnes will lose time for throwing at Manny Machado‘s head:

Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Barnes has been suspended four games and fined an undisclosed amount for throwing a fastball past the head of Baltimore Orioles star Manny Machado.

The commissioner’s office issued the penalty Monday. The Red Sox are off and Barnes is appealing, meaning the reliever can continue to pitch until the process is done.

Miguel Sano of the Twins will sit for a game:

Minnesota Twins third baseman Miguel Sano has been suspended for one game and fined by Major League Baseball for what the league termed “aggressive actions” that caused benches to clear during a game against the Detroit Tigers last weekend.

Detroit’s JaCoby Jones was hit in the face by a pitch from Justin Haley in the third inning of the Tigers’ 5-4 victory Saturday. Two innings later, Detroit’s Matthew Boyd threw behind Sano, who pointed his bat toward Boyd and yelled out at the mound. Tigers catcher James McCann intervened and appeared to put his mitt in the face of Sano, who reacted immediately with a right hand to McCann’s mask.

Wow, I haven’t seen that before. I tend to think pitchers don’t get suspended long enough for hitting batters, and Sano just gets upset about retaliation and winds up suspended himself. It doesn’t quite seem right.