{"id":17706,"date":"2014-04-22T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/punishments-handed-out-for-brewers-pirates-brawl\/"},"modified":"2014-04-23T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:40:22","slug":"punishments-handed-out-for-brewers-pirates-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/punishments-handed-out-for-brewers-pirates-brawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Punishments handed out for Brewers-Pirates brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Major League Baseball on Tuesday announced multiple suspensions stemming from Sunday&#8217;s bench-clearing brawl between the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Brewers backup catcher Martin Maldonado drew the largest penalty, a five-game ban, after he leveled Pirates outfielder Travis Snider with a vicious right cross to the face during the main scrum. Snider will be sidelined for two games for his role in the fracas.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee outfielder Carlos Gomez, who precipitated events by flipping his bat and standing at home plate to admire a ball hit off Pirates starter Gerrit Cole during the third inning, drew a three-game suspension. He has decided to appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh catcher Russell Martin received the lightest sentence, as he&#8217;ll be required to sit out only one contest.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the four players were hit with undisclosed fines.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining suspensions are due to take effect as of Tuesday night, unless further appeals are forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Major League Baseball on Tuesday announced multiple suspensions stemming from Sunday&#8217;s bench-clearing brawl between the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates. Brewers backup catcher Martin Maldonado drew the largest penalty, a five-game ban, after he leveled Pirates outfielder Travis Snider with a vicious right cross to the face during the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[175,174,173,180,143,179],"class_list":["post-17706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-brewers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17730,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17706\/revisions\/17730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}