[外電] Cabrera suspended six games

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Cabrera suspended six games Right-hander punished after plunking A-Rod on Tuesday By Amanda Comak / MLB.com BALTIMORE -- On Tuesday night, Orioles pitcher Daniel Cabrera was ejected in the eighth inning after hitting the left arm of Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. Cabrera found out that pitch is going to cost him a lot more than he may have thought on Thursday. Cabrera was suspended six games and fined an undisclosed amount for what vice president of on-field operations Bob Watson referred to in a press release as "intentionally throwing a pitch in the head area" of Rodriguez. Yankees reliever Edwar Ramirez was suspended three games and also fined an undisclosed amount for committing the same offense one day later, throwing at Orioles first baseman Kevin Millar in the seventh inning at Yankee Stadium -- a pitch deemed to be in retaliation for Rodriguez's plunking one night earlier. The Yankees reliever appealed the suspension, putting the punishment on hold until his case can be heard. Cabrera and the Orioles were fuming when the hurler was ejected Tuesday night. There had been no warnings issued, but home-plate umpire Chad Fairchild said he felt Rodriguez's home run in his previous at-bat in the sixth served as justification enough that Cabrera was looking for retaliation with the pitch. "It was tough, because I know everybody in the whole stadium and every player, they know I'm not trying to hit A-Rod," Cabrera said after the game. "So he took me out, and there's nothing I can do." Orioles manager Dave Trembley was equally mystified and stated his case to Fairchild on the field but it was to no avail. "He was basing his decision on the previous at-bat that Rodriguez hit a home run and now the very next at-bat we pitched inside to him," Trembley said. "And I said, 'Chad, I have seen a lot of baseball games and the one thing you just did is the one thing we've been trying to avoid. You just let 54,000 people back in this game.' We can agree to disagree on that ... but I would bet the farm that Cabrera wasn't throwing [at him] in that situation." "My thinking with the ejection is when Alex came to bat the prior time, he had hit a home run," Fairchild said on Tuesday. "And the very first pitch his next at-bat was up towards the head area. I deemed that pitch intentional and I removed Cabrera from the game." If Cabrera does not choose to appeal the suspension, he will miss his next scheduled start, slated for Sunday, against the Mariners. After Wednesday's game, Ramirez, who was ejected after the pitch to Millar, also insisted that his pitch was unintentional, but Millar wasn't convinced, saying he felt "100 percent" sure that there was intent behind the pitch. From:http://tinyurl.com/666d3o -- 靠，裁判自由心證... 還是說，其實他是XX球迷，呵呵... -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 61.230.7.118