Major League Baseball announced Thursday that nationals were Jorge Lopez And manager Davey Martinez received suspensions after a quick ball from Lopez to Andrew McCutchen Navigated high and tight, hitting almost McCutchen in the head. Lopez has received a suspension of three games, which he will appeal. Martinez was suspended for a match and will serve this punishment today. The bench coach Miguel Cairo will manage in his place.
The wandering step at McCutchen finally prompted the two benches to free themselves. Tensions had already been raised. Mitch Keller had struck the interior field player of Nats Paul Dejong Opposite a watch, breaking their noses and sending it to the injured list. Lopez had first struck Pittsburgh outflow Bryan Reynolds With a land before losing the handle on another offer in McCutchen, the next dough. Lopez was ejected from the game.
The league’s announcement indicates that they believe that Lopez has “intentionally launched” McCutchen. Lopez denied this, and even McCutchen himself suggested after the match that he did not believe that there was the intention behind the field.
“It’s just the nature of the situation,” replied McCutchen when he was questioned after the incident (video link via mlb.com). “Take it as it is, even if it was not on purpose, which I don’t think. I think the height of the moment comes from him, perhaps. We moved away from him, similar to (Keller).
Order problems are not exactly new for Lopez. He traveled 10.5% of his opponents this season, struck another pair of strikers and was accused of wild land. Everything came in just 7 2/3 work rounds. Dating from 2021, Lopez launched 312 1/3 league rounds and traveled nearly 10% of the strikers he was confronted with. He also struck 29 additional strikers – 2.1% of his opponents, north of the league average – and was accused of 22 wild locations.
Signed for a one -year contract of 3 million dollars in winter, Lopez took a good start with the Nats before tripping in its last two outings. Through his first six executives, he held opponents at a pair of points on four strokes and two steps with five stick withdrawals. It has since been tagged for seven points in a total of only 1,2/3 innings, raising its deserved average at 10.57 on the young season.
Lopez recorded an MPM of 2.89, a withdrawal rate of 23%, a walking rate of 8.8% and a field rate of 51% in 53 rounds between dishes and Cubs last season. He collected 10 issues and four stops along the way. In 183 rounds of 2022-24, he recorded an average deserved race of 3.74 with 30 stops and 21 selected.
