{"id":771508,"date":"2026-08-06T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/771508\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:21:16","slug":"mariners-reliever-and-manager-ejected-after-4th-tigers-batter-hit-by-pitch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/771508\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners reliever and manager ejected after 4th Tigers batter hit by pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"

(AP) \u2014 Seattle Mariners reliever Gabe Speier was ejected after hitting Detroit’s Gleyber Torres with a pitch in the eighth inning Wednesday night, making Torres the fourth Tigers batter plunked in the game.<\/p>\n

The benches and bullpens cleared after Torres was hit<\/a>, though there appeared to be no punches thrown while the teams gathered around home plate. Mariners manager Dan Wilson was also ejected in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

Speier had relieved starter Bryan Woo, who hit three batters during his seven scoreless innings in the Mariners’ 4-2 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Tigers<\/p>\n

AP<\/p>\n

Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers members rush the mound in the eighth inning of a baseball game on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo\/Kevin Ng)<\/p>\n

Speier retired the first two batters he faced before pegging Torres on the upper left leg with a 96.3 mph fastball. That came on the second pitch of the at-bat, after Torres had gotten out of the way of a 95.9 mph pitch that was also way inside.<\/p>\n

Detroit left-hander Enmanuel De Jesus hit Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh with a 95-mph fastball in the bottom of the seventh.<\/p>\n

Tigers rookie Max Clark took a pitch off his elbow guard leading off the third, the first of three consecutive innings when Woo hit batters.<\/p>\n

Riley Green was hit by a pitch in the fourth, and Zach McKinstry in the fifth \u2014 both breaking balls on the back foot. McKinstry got first base only after a replay review<\/a> showed that the ball grazed the front of his foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) \u2014 Seattle Mariners reliever Gabe Speier was ejected after hitting Detroit’s Gleyber Torres with a pitch in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[14040,5,13485,620,4,619,65,3235,14041],"class_list":["post-771508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-7-action-news-sports","tag-baseball","tag-detroit-sports","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-wxyz-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117048540352377613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771508","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=771508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}