Major League Baseball has announced the first round of punishments from Sunday’s benches-clearing brawl between the Oakland Athletics and Houston Astros — and an Astros coach is getting a huge suspension.
Astros coach Alex Cintrón, who instigated the brawl, got a 20-game suspension, according to various reports. That accounts for nearly half of Houston’s 44 remaining games. The punishment for A’s outfielder Ramón Laureano, who charged Houston’s dugout on Cintrón’s prompting, is six games, according to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Cintrón’s suspension is effective immediately.