{"id":5548,"date":"2013-09-26T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mlb-hands-gomez-johnson-one-game-suspensions\/"},"modified":"2013-09-26T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:11:00","slug":"mlb-hands-gomez-johnson-one-game-suspensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mlb-hands-gomez-johnson-one-game-suspensions\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB hands Gomez, Johnson one-game suspensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; Major League Baseball handed down one-game suspensions to Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Carlos Gomez and Atlanta Braves outfielder Reed Johnson for their roles in a benches clearing incident on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez set off the scuffle when he stared down his 23rd home run of the season off Braves starter Paul Maholm in the first inning of an eventual 4-0 Brewers victory. He then jawed with every other member of the Braves&#8217; infield while taking his turn around the bases before being confronted by catcher Brian McCann.<\/p>\n<p>Both benches cleared, but order was quickly restored. Gomez was credited with the homer despite never appearing to touch home plate.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently miffed at Maholm, whom Gomez says intentionally hit him with a pitch back on June 23 in Milwaukee, the Brewers outfielder shoved Johnson once the benches emptied. The two suspended players were also fined an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p>Both suspensions are scheduled to begin on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; Major League Baseball handed down one-game suspensions to Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Carlos Gomez and Atlanta Braves outfielder Reed Johnson for their roles in a benches clearing incident on Wednesday. Gomez set off the scuffle when he stared down his 23rd home run of the season off Braves starter Paul [&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":[18,17,19,175,174,173],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves","tag-brewers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}