{"id":121364,"date":"2025-06-21T22:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121364\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T22:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:28:15","slug":"mlb-investigating-giants-pitcher-sean-hjelle-after-wife-accuses-him-of-abuse-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121364\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB investigating Giants pitcher Sean Hjelle after wife accuses him of abuse, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"sean-hjelle-giants-g.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sean-hjelle-giants-g.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/SF\/san-francisco-giants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> pitcher <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2931967\/sean-hjelle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Hjelle<\/a> is being investigated by Major League Baseball following allegations of abuse made by his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/giants-sean-hjelle-9d11e2b55466bf503176a357be8735a9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Associated Press reports<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Hjelle made the allegations on Friday via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@carolinehjelle\/video\/7518143089454763278?is_from_webapp=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a post on the TikTok social-media platform<\/a>. The caption to her video reads:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When my MLB husband abandons us on Mothers Day a week after this once I finally found about his affairs and stopped putting up with his abuse, so I&#8217;ve been raising two boys alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the AP, the Giants said in a Saturday statement that the club is &#8220;aware of these serious allegations&#8221; and that MLB is handling it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, we&#8217;re aware of it,&#8221; Giants manager Bob Melvin said of the investigation of Hjelle. &#8220;He told me about it last night. We talked to MLB. At this point, it&#8217;s in their jurisdiction right now, so I really can&#8217;t comment on it further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Melvin added that Hjelle would be available to pitch on Saturday against the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/BOS\/boston-red-sox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Hjelle is in his fourth major-league season. In 2025, he&#8217;s pitched to a 4.66 ERA in six appearances for the Giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images San Francisco Giants pitcher Sean Hjelle is being investigated by Major League Baseball following allegations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,48,4,66,19505],"class_list":{"0":"post-121364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-francisco-giants","12":"tag-sean-hjelle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114723717471179703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}