Cubs pitcher Tepera is suspended
Chicago Cubs pitcher Ryan Tepera was suspended for three games on Thursday by Major League Baseball, which concluded he intentionally threw at Milwaukee’s Brandon Woodruff this week.
Tepera appealed the penalty handed down by MLB senior vice president for onfield operations Michael Hill. Tepera, who also was fined, will not have to serve any discipline while the appeal is pending before MLB special adviser John McHale Jr.
Cubs manager David Ross was suspended for one game and fined because of Tepera’s actions. Managers immediately serve discipline, and Ross will sit out the Cubs’ series opener against Atlanta today.
Chicago’s Willson Contreras was hit by a pitch from Woodruff leading off the fourth inning on Tuesday night. Tepera
threw a pitch behind Woodruff in the fifth.
Contreras hit a go-ahead, two-run homer off Brent Suter in the eighth, and the Cubs went on to win 3-2.
WHITE SOX ACTIVATE STAR SHORTSTOP >> The Chicago White Sox reinstated shortstop Tim Anderson from the injured list prior to Thursday’s game against the Cleveland Indians.
Anderson was put on the 10-day IL with a strained hamstring after suffering the injury while running out a ground ball in an April 4 game.
Anderson won the American League batting championship in 2019 with a .335 average and hit .322 last season. HONORING JACKIE >> Manager Dave Roberts and the Los Angeles Dodgers started Jackie Robinson Day, several hours before Thursday night’s game against the Colorado Rockies, with a private tribute to the Hall of Famer and civil rights advocate.
Wearing their No. 42 jerseys in honor of the Brooklyn Dodgers great, on-field personnel and others from the organization — approximately 75 in total — gathered around the Jackie Robinson statute at Dodger Stadium
to pay their respects.
“It was great,” Roberts said. “Any time you can get the players and staff, front office and ownership, with a central thought and moment of recognition for Jackie Robinson Day, I thought it was special.” NACHO MAN >> Justin Turner utterly destroyed a plate of nachos and splattered a fan’s jacket with cheese when the veteran slugger’s home run ball landed in the first row of the outfield seats at Dodger Stadium during the Dodgers’ 4-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night.
When Turner got back to the dugout and saw the replay, he hailed a clubhouse attendant and bought a fresh order of nachos for the fan. The Dodgers also helped out by sending a World Series hoodie.
“I felt bad,” Turner said with a grin. “I’m sure it was not a cheap plate of nachos.”