Los Angeles Angels third baseman Anthony Rendon will serve a four-game suspension for a public altercation with a fan in Oakland last week, videos of which circulated on social media.
Major League Baseball initially handed Rendon a five-game suspension on Monday, which Rendon threatened to appeal. A subsequent negotiated settlement between MLB and the MLB Players' Association reduced Rendon's suspension to four games that must be served immediately, beginning with the Angels' road game against the division-rival Seattle Mariners later Monday afternoon.
Rendon, who was also fined an undisclosed amount, grabbed the fan by the shirt as he was making his way out of the first-base dugout and into the tunnel that leads to the visitors' clubhouse at RingCentral Coliseum on Thursday night in the aftermath of the Angels' 2-1 Opening Day loss to the Oakland Athletics.