Main League Baseball introduced on Friday night that Pittsburgh Pirates aid pitcher Dennis Santana has been suspended 4 video games after video surfaced of him in an altercation with a fan at Comerica Park in Detroit on Thursday evening. The incident occurred late within the Pirates’ 8-4 win over the Tigers.
A number of fan movies confirmed Santana aggressively swinging at a fan — who seemed to be a Pirates fan — seated immediately above the staff’s bullpen, earlier than lastly being restrained by members of the teaching workers and bullpen.
Santana was asked about the incident after the game, however wouldn’t go into any element as to what the fan mentioned to spark that response. He solely mentioned that the fan “crossed the road” a number of instances and that he had by no means had something like that occur in his massive league profession.
Skilled athletes hear quite a lot of heckling, and that’s very true for aid pitchers positioned immediately under followers within the bullpen. It takes so much to get them to react. So it’s totally affordable to imagine that Santana is telling the reality that the fan mentioned one thing approach over the road, and maybe repeatedly, to get that kind of response.
However Main League Baseball remains to be not going to take these items evenly and is at all times going to attract a daring line within the sand on the subject of participant and fan interactions. You simply cannot go after the paying clients. If they are saying or do one thing that’s over the road, there may be safety within the stadium to deal with it and take away them from the scenario. The league isn’t going to be OK with gamers taking issues into their very own arms.
That isn’t just for the protection of individuals within the stands, but additionally for the protection of the gamers themselves.
