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Mets reliever Jacob Rhame insisted that he was just trying to establish his pitches inside when he threw two balls near the head of Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins in the ninth inning of Tuesday night’s win over Philadelphia. The Phillies believed the pitches were intentional and too high for comfort.
Major League Baseball agreed with the Phillies, as Joe Torre, the chief baseball officer for M.L.B., issued a two-game suspension on Thursday for Rhame, who was also fined an undisclosed amount of money.
In a release, Torre said Rhame had been punished for “intentionally throwing a pitch in the area of the head.