NEW YORK – Major League Baseball issued eight suspensions two days after a bench-clearing donnybrook between the Reds and Pirates at Great American Ball Park.
Three players on each team were suspended, and all of them have elected to appeal.
Reds manager David Bell was suspended six games and Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle was penalized two games.
Pittsburgh pitcher Keone Kela has been suspended for 10 games, Cincinnati reliever Amir Garrett for eight and Yasiel Puig — who had been traded to Cleveland before the fight broke out — for three games.
Freddie Freeman hit a three-run homer, Adam Duvall went deep again and Max Fried pitched six strong innings to lead the Braves past the Reds 4-1 in a game that was cut short by heavy rain.
Fried threw one pitch in the top of the seventh before a line of strong thunderstorms swept across SunTrust Park. Nearly two hours after play was halted, lightning continued to crackle across the sky and sheets of rain turned the warning track into a muddy mess.