{"id":16039,"date":"2023-07-27T05:06:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16039"},"modified":"2023-07-27T05:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:06:39","slug":"mlb-suspends-pirates-pitcher-angel-perdomo-for-intentionally-throwing-at-padres-star-manny-machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16039","title":{"rendered":"MLB suspends Pirates pitcher Angel Perdomo for intentionally throwing at Padres star Manny Machado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\"><u>Major League Baseball<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;has decided to punish Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Angel Perdomo for intentionally throwing at Manny Machado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perdomo hit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\/san-diego-padres\"><u>San Diego Padres<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;star third baseman Manny Machado in the back on Tuesday, and one day later, the league handed down a three-game suspension. Perdomo will also have to pay an undisclosed fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pirates pitcher gave up a home run to Juan Soto in the seventh inning before he hit Machado with a 98 mph fastball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pirates manager Derek Shelton received a one-game suspension and a fine due to Perdomo\u2019s actions. The Padres went on to defeat the Pirates, 5-1, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates\"><u>The Pirates<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;wrapped up their three-game series with the Padres on Wednesday, with Perdomo and Shelton serving their suspensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I gave all my best to Soto, all my pitches,&#8221; Perdomo said after the game Tuesday. &#8220;He got the home run against me. And then against Machado, I just tried to come in and went too far in and hit him by mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shelton also said that he believed Perdomo unintentionally hit Machado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Ball just got away from him; it hit him,&#8221; the manager said. &#8220;The umpires got together, which they\u2019re supposed to do. After they got together, they decided on an ejection.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perdomo joined the Pirates as a free agent this season and is 1-1 with a 3.92 ERA in 21 appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 29-year-old is 2-1 in his career with a 6.02 ERA in 43 relief appearances over three seasons for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/mlb\/milwaukee-brewers\"><u>Milwaukee Brewers<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;and Pirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/mlb-suspends-pirates-pitcher-angel-perdomo-intentionally-throwing-padres-star-manny-machado\">Foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball&nbsp;has decided to punish Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Angel Perdomo for intentionally throwing at Manny Machado. Perdomo hit&nbsp;San Diego Padres&nbsp;star third baseman Manny Machado in the back on Tuesday, and one day later, the league handed down a three-game suspension. Perdomo will also have to pay an undisclosed fine. The Pirates pitcher gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[10205,10204,10203,10206,6113,3637],"class_list":["post-16039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-angel-peldoro","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-padres","tag-pirates","tag-stars","tag-suspension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16042,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16039\/revisions\/16042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}