The League announced Saturday that CC Sabathia will receive a five-game suspension starting in 2019 for the incident against the Rays Thursday. The big man plans to appeal, however.
“I’m fine with it,” Sabathia said Saturday when the suspension was announced. “I knew something was going to come down.”
Rays’ pitcher Andrew Kittredge was also issued a three-game suspension and fined for throwing at Austin Romine. It was this incident which led CC to hit catcher Jesus Sucre in relation and, after being ejected, motioned toward Tampa Bay’s dugout and said, “that’s for you, bitch.