{"id":670951,"date":"2026-04-08T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670951\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:21:15","slug":"two-mlb-players-get-7-game-suspensions-following-angels-braves-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670951\/","title":{"rendered":"Two MLB players get 7-game suspensions following Angels-Braves brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler and Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez each received seven-game suspensions from Major League Baseball on Wednesday after they were ejected following their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jorge-soler-reynaldo-lopez-braves-angels-8305af2fa811240115ce864fb9035597?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">participation in a brawl<\/a> Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Michael Hill, MLB\u2019s senior vice president for on-field operations, also announced the players received undisclosed fines. The suspensions were scheduled to begin with Wednesday&#8217;s game but will be on hold as each player is appealing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Soler homered off L\u00f3pez in the first inning of Tuesday night&#8217;s game. In his next at-bat, Soler was hit by a 96 mph fastball from L\u00f3pez. In the fifth, Soler charged the mound after L\u00f3pez threw a high-and-inside wild pitch that tipped off catcher Jonah Heim\u2019s mitt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As Soler began walking toward the mound, L\u00f3pez held up his hands as the two glared at each other before both started throwing punches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The right-handed L\u00f3pez held the baseball in his right hand as he used it to throw a punch at Soler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Players and coaches stormed out of the dugouts and bullpens and Braves manager Walt Weiss tackled Soler, the 2021 World Series MVP with Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP MLB: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler and Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo L\u00f3pez each received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[85228,291,4805,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,256,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-670951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-85228","9":"tag-angels","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-angels","14":"tag-laangels","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-angels","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesangels","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-mlb-baseball","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371187133760583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670951","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=670951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}