{"id":8161,"date":"2014-06-10T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2014-06-10T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:53:28","slug":"manny-machado-suspended-five-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/10\/manny-machado-suspended-five-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Machado suspended five games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8162\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/mannymachado.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"532\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/mannymachado.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/mannymachado-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nMajor league baseball has suspended Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado five games and fined him an undisclosed amount of money following a bat-tossing incident which took place on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Machado plans to appeal the suspension and Orioles executive VP of baseball operations Dan Duquette said a demotion is not out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>Even prior to the suspension, Machado had been struggling this season hitting just .229\/.283\/.336 with four home runs and 11 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland A&#8217;s pitcher Fernando Abad was not suspended but has been fined for throwing at Machado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major league baseball has suspended Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado five games and fined him an undisclosed amount of money following a bat-tossing incident which took place on Sunday. Machado plans to appeal the suspension and Orioles executive VP of baseball operations Dan Duquette said a demotion is not out of the question. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,503,478,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-manny-machado","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8163,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}