{"id":669548,"date":"2026-04-08T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669548\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:00:33","slug":"angels-jorge-soler-gets-into-fight-with-atlantas-reynaldo-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669548\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels&#8217; Jorge Soler gets into fight with Atlanta&#8217;s Reynaldo L\u00f3pez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Benches cleared between the Angels and Braves at Angel Stadium in the fifth inning Tuesday night after <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/jorge-soler-624585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jorge Soler<\/a> took exception with a high pitch thrown by Atlanta starter Reynaldo L\u00f3pez and charged the mound, with each player throwing punches.<\/p>\n<p>After the pitch, the two players stared at one another briefly before Lopez gestured at Soler, and the Angels batter charged the mound. L\u00f3pez was holding a baseball as he threw a punch and made direct contact to the side of Soler\u2019s face, with the ball partially hitting Soler\u2019s helmet.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Angels batter Jorge Soler, left, fights Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775620823_767_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Angels batter Jorge Soler, left, fights Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez in the fifth inning at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>(Ethan Swope \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>The benches quickly cleared and players separated Soler and L\u00f3pez after a brief, but intense skirmish that pushed out toward the first-base side of the diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Soler and L\u00f3pez were ejected from the game. Major League Baseball likely will suspend both players.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Players on the Angels and Braves rush the field after Jorge Soler and Reynaldo L\u00f3pez fight.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775620833_73_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Players on the Angels and Braves rush the field after Jorge Soler and Reynaldo L\u00f3pez fight at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>(Ethan Swope \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benches cleared between the Angels and Braves at Angel Stadium in the fifth inning Tuesday night after Jorge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[2194,291,191,46,4166,5,25351,192,85128,85127,20568,85126,3509,3459,4,5733,3181,9143,5171,2572],"class_list":{"0":"post-669548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-angel-stadium","9":"tag-angels","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-atlanta-braves","12":"tag-atlantabraves","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-bench","15":"tag-braves","16":"tag-exception","17":"tag-fifth-inning-tuesday-night","18":"tag-fight","19":"tag-high-pitch","20":"tag-jorge-soler","21":"tag-lopez","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-mound","24":"tag-player","25":"tag-punch","26":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","27":"tag-side"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116367093868021873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669548","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=669548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}