The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a two-game series sweep of the Houston Astros last month, but the biggest takeaway from the series was an incident involving Joe Kelly and Carlos Correa in the opening contest.
After sailing a pitch over Alex Bregman’s head and backing up Yuli Gurriel with a breaking ball, Kelly struck out Correa to complete a scoreless sixth inning. The two exchanged glares and shouted in each other’s direction, prompting benches to clear.
Kelly later denied that he intentionally tried hitting the aforementioned players, but MLB nonetheless served him an eight-game suspension — the equivalent to 22 games over a normal 162-game regular season.