MLB suspends Yanks' Donaldson for 1 game for 'Jackie' remark
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball suspended Josh Donaldson for one game Monday following the New York Yankees slugger made multiple references to Jackie Robinson while talking to White Sox celestial body Tim Anderson throughout the weekend.
Donaldson too was fined an undisclosed amount for his actions Saturday at Yankee Stadium. The punishment was announced by Michael Hill, the older vice president of on-field operations for MLB.
Donaldson has elected to appeal the penalty. Shortly earlier to the suspension was announced, the Yankees said Donaldson had been place on the COVID-19 injured list.
"MLB has completed the procedure of speaking to the individuals associated accompanied by inside this incident. There is no indeed debate over what was said on the field. Regardless of Mr. Donaldson's intent, the remark he directed in the direction of Mr. Anderson was disrespectful with every one other accompanied by inside poverty-stricken judgment, mainly when viewed inside the circumstances of their earlier interactions," Hill said inside a statement.
"In addition, Mr. Donaldson's remark was a contributing element inside a bench-clearing event in the centre of the teams, with every one other accompanied by warrants discipline," he said.
White Sox pitching bus Ethan Katz didn't believe the punishment was enough.
"Just one game. We all saw his malice at third a week ago, at that hour dated this remark accompanied by the laughable forgive that followed. What's the point or message behind a 1 game suspension? This is incredibly disappointing with every one other accompanied by plain frustrating," Katz posted on Twitter.
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The White Sox had a day off Monday. They are not scheduled to amuse oneself the Yankees on one occasion additional this season.
AL East-leading New York is scheduled to not shut a three-game series opposed to Baltimore on Monday darkness with every one other accompanied by at that hour dated head to Tampa Bay for a four-game place beginning on Thursday.
Donaldson said he twice called Anderson by "Jackie" — while inside Robinson, who famously broke MLB's color fence inside 1947 — throughout the Yankees' 7-5 come first in on Saturday. The benches with every one other accompanied by bullpens emptied while tensions escalated.
Anderson, one of baseball's leading Black voices with every one other accompanied by an All-Star shortstop, said it was a "disrespectful comment." White Sox executive Tony La Russa said it was racist, with every one other accompanied by Anderson agreed.
"Basically, it was trying to call me Jackie Robinson. Like, 'What's up, Jackie?'" Anderson said following Saturday's game.
Donaldson, who is white, said he had used the "Jackie" allude to of inside the past accompanied by Anderson, who had said he viewed himself while a potential modern-day Robinson inside a 2019 meeting accompanied by Sports Illustrated.
"My meaning of that is not some word trying to exist racist by some fact of the matter," Donaldson said Saturday.
Anderson with every one other accompanied by Donaldson, the 2015 AL MVP, did not speak accompanied by the media on Sunday, when the White Sox swept a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. Through a Yankees spokesman, Donaldson said he hadn't talked accompanied by Anderson since the incident.
Anderson started the following game with every one other accompanied by was booed by fans, accompanied by some chanting "Jackie" at him. He hit a three-run homer inside the eighth inning of a 5-0 come first in with every one other accompanied by at that hour dated place his digitthumb to his lips inside a hushing signal while he rounded the bases.
Yankees executive Aaron Boone said he talked to Donaldson following Saturday's game with every one other accompanied by believed his player's clarification for why he made the "Jackie" remark — nevertheless he too said he idea Donaldson shouldn't have used the term.
"I believe accompanied by what's going on in the centre of the set of two players with every one other accompanied by in the centre of the set of two teams over the last week or two, I certainly comprehend how that would exist sensitive with every one other accompanied by comprehend the reaction," Boone said. "I too comprehend Josh has been extremely forthcoming accompanied by the history of it with every one other accompanied by the circumstances of it. So I don't exist convinced by there was some malicious intent inside that regard."
"But this is fair my opinion — (that's) somewhere he should not exist going," he said.
Donaldson had clashed accompanied by the White Sox on multiple occasions earlier to this weekend.
The benches too emptied on May 13 following Anderson shoved Donaldson following a firm tag inside Chicago.
White Sox ace Lucas Giolito used an expletive inside calling Donaldson a "pest" last year following Donaldson appeared to cry "Not adhesive anymore!" following a first-inning homer for Minnesota — a allude to of to MLB cracking down on pitchers using adhesive substances on baseballs.
The 36-year-old Donaldson is batting .238 accompanied by five place of residence runs with every one other accompanied by 15 RBIs inside 37 games throughout his earliest time accompanied by the Yankees.
Boone said Donaldson told the team he was experiencing symptoms, prompting the team to place him on the COVID-19 injured list. He had not been tested, Boone said.
Donaldson became the third Yankees player to go on the COVID-19 IL inside the last set of two days. Before Sunday's doubleheader, Joey Gallo with every one other accompanied by Kyle Higashioka were placed on the list.
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