ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Minnesota Twins reliever Tyler Duffey was suspended for three games and manager Rocco Baldelli received a one-game ban Thursday for intentionally throwing behind Yermín Mercedes of the Chicago White Sox in a sequence of events that sparked a debate on the importance of the unwritten rules of baseball.
Duffey appealed his ban, and the Angels pounded him for four hits and three runs in the fifth inning of the first game Thursday.
The Twins were responding to Mercedes’ homer on a 3-0 pitch while the White Sox had an 11-run lead a day earlier.