Ventura, suspended for only nine games, will serve eight games. Machado will serve his full four games starting Sunday.
On Tuesday, June 7, Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Yordano Ventura intentionally threw a 99mph fastball right into Manny Machado’s back. When Machado charged the mound following this bit of headhunting, a brawl was sparked and when the dust settled days later, both Ventura and Machado had been suspended by the league.
Despite Ventura’s history of this kind of behavior of throwing hard at players on purpose and being at the center of bench-clearing incidents, the league only suspended him for nine games.