MLB will down an eight-game suspension to Carlos Quentin. No doubt he will appeal.
With Carlos Carrasco also getting a long suspension for hitting a batter, MLB seems to be trying to crack down on both ends of this problem. Normally, suspensions are reduced upon appeal. We’ll see if that happens. MLB may be making the suspensions eight games so that when they are reduced, players are still getting a long suspension that we used to see.
Tom Boswell tells us in 4/13 Wash Post that NYG
pitcher Rueben Gomez drilled Mil Brave Joe Adcock & ran all over Braves infield & into Giants’ dugout. That actually happened in Polo Grounds & after Adcock took a few steps twd the mound, Gomez took off in a shameful sprint to the safety of the CF clubhouse 500 ft from homeplate. Adcock had good reason to be mad as 2 yrs earlier Dodgers broke his arm with a duster the day after he hit 4 HR in Ebbets Field. Adcock also had familiarity with Polo Grounds distant bleachers as he was first batter to reach those distant seats with a HR.
Later Henry Aaron &, of all people, Lou Brock,
with Cubs, also reached those distant seats.