NEW YORK — Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna was arrested Saturday on charges of aggravated assault strangulation and misdemeanor family violence.
The 30-year-old was booked by the Sandy Springs Police Department, according to Fulton County Jail records, and an apparent photo of his arrest was posted by a user on Twitter. Sandy Springs is a suburb of Atlanta.
Major League Baseball’s Department of Investigations plans to review the matter under the joint domestic violence policy in place between MLB and the players association.
“We learned of Marcell Ozuna’s arrest earlier this evening and immediately informed the Commissioner’s Office,” the Braves said in a statement. “The Braves fully support Major League Baseball’s policy on domestic violence which stresses to the fullest that our society cannot and will not tolerate domestic violence in any form. Until the investigation is completed, we will have no further comment and all inquiries into the matter should be referred to the Office of the Commissioner.”
Ozuna was placed on the injured list Friday with two dislocated fingers on his left hand. In the photo circulating of his apparent arrest, he’s wearing a bright yellow cast on his left hand.
Ozuna re-signed with Atlanta in February on a $65 million, four-year deal after a stellar first season with the Braves in 2020. He batted .338, led the National League with 18 homers and finished sixth in NL MVP balloting.
ROCKIES: Shortstop Trevor Story was placed on the injured list because of inflammation in his right elbow.
The move was announced Saturday by the team before a doubleheader in Pittsburgh against the Pirates. The Rockies also reinstated infielder Matt Adams from the injured list.
Story was taken out on Thursday in New York against the Mets as a precaution. He’s off to a slow start this season, hitting .255 with five homers.
The two-time All-Star is in the final year of his deal and figures to be a hot commodity toward the trade deadline. He’s a smooth fielder who has plenty of power (139 career homers) and has speed on the base paths (two seasons with 20 or more stolen bases).
Last Sunday against Arizona, the 28-year-old Story broke out of a homer funk with the fourth walk-off homer of his career. It’s tied for third-most in franchise history with Charlie Blackmon, Jason Giambi and Larry Walker, behind only Dante Bichette, who had five, and Todd Helton, who finished with seven.
That long ball snapped a 17-game homerless streak for Story, the second-longest of his career.
SATURDAY’S GAMES
PIRATES SWEEP ROCKIES: Mitch Keller and the Pittsburgh bullpen finished off a pair of seven-inning shutouts, and Pirates swept a doubleheader at home.
After JT Brubaker excelled to win the opener 7-0 and end Pittsburgh’s six-game losing streak, Keller was equally impressive.
The Pirates shut out a team in both games of a doubleheader for the first time since Oct. 3, 1976, against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Pittsburgh pitchers combined to hold Colorado to just six total hits. The Rockies have lost five in a row.
Keller (3-6) pitched two-hit ball for five innings. He struck out six and walked two after losing his previous three starts.
The right-hander didn’t allow a runner to reach second until the fifth, closing his outing by forcing Raimel Tapia into an inning-ending groundout with runners on second and third.
BREWERS 4, NATIONALS 1: Freddy Peralta pitched his first complete game in the majors, going all seven innings and leading Milwaukee to a win in Washington in the first game of a doubleheader.
Peralta (5-1) allowed four hits, including Kyle Schwarber’s home run, while striking out seven and walking one. The 24-year-old right-hander made his 33rd start in the big leagues.
Avisaíl Garcia homered and drove in three runs.
Garcia hit his team-leading ninth homer, a two-run drive off Patrick Corbin (3-4) in the first inning.
Christian Yelich hit an RBI triple in the third and scored on Garcia’s grounder for a 4-0 lead.
RAYS 5, PHILLIES 3: Austin Meadows drove in his third run on a tiebreaking RBI infield single during a two-run eighth inning and Tampa Bay won for the 14th time in 15 games, beating the Phillies in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Randy Arozarena had a leadoff single in the eighth and advanced to third on a wild pitch by Sam Coonrod (0-2). After Yandy Díaz was intentionally walked with one out, Meadows made it 4-3 with his hit off José Alvarado.
Tampa Bay took a two-run lead when Alvarado walked pinch-hitter Mike Brosseau with the bases load.
Diego Castillo (1-3) worked out of a two-on, two-out jam in the eighth for the Rays, who have won three in a row after Kansas City stopped their 11-game winning streak on Tuesday. J.P. Feyereisen worked the ninth to get his second save.
TWINS 6, ROYALS 5: Rookie Trevor Larnach homered and Rob Refsnyder drove in two runs as Minnesota hung on to beat Kansas City in Minneapolis.
Nelson Cruz had an RBI double that drove in Josh Donaldson with a notable run — it was the 2 millionth run scored in Major League Baseball history.
J.A. Happ (3-2) won for the first time in five starts, finishing five innings to set up the Twins for their seventh victory in the last nine games despite another late lapse by the bullpen.
Jorge Alcala and Tyler Duffey pitched a perfect relief inning apiece for the Twins, combining for five strikeouts. Then a rally in the Royals eighth keyed by Hanser Alberto’s leadoff double yielded a run off Hansel Robles.
Adalberto Mondesi hit his first home run of the season in the ninth, a two-run shot off Taylor Rogers to bring the Royals within one. Rogers deftly recovered with three straight outs to record his fourth save in six attempts.
WHITE SOX SWEEP ORIOLES: Billy Hamilton hit a solo home run, Jose Abreu had a two-run homer, and Lance Lynn pitched five scoreless innings to help host Chicago complete a doubleheader sweep of Baltimore with a 3-1 victory.
In the opener, Jake Lamb and Yoán Moncada homered, with Abreu driving in three runs in a 7-4 win.
Chicago has won five of its last six games after getting swept by the New York Yankees last weekend. Meanwhile, the Orioles have lost 12 consecutive games for their longest losing streak since dropping 13 in a row from Sept. 17-30, 2009.
Lance Lynn (6-1) became the fifth White Sox pitcher to go 5-0 in May, and the first since teammate Lucas Giolito did it in 2019. Lynn allowed just three hits while striking out seven and not allowing a walk in the second game.
CUBS 10, REDS 2: Joc Pederson, Ian Happ and Eric Sogard each drove in two runs, and host Chicago beat Cincinnati for its season-high sixth consecutive victory.
Rafael Ortega homered and Kris Bryant had a run-scoring single, helping the Cubs improve to 18-7 this month. It’s the most wins for the team in May since it went 18-10 in 2016.
Cincinnati right-hander Luis Castillo (1-8) pitched five-plus innings of four-run ball in his seventh straight loss. Castillo, who started on Opening Day, became the first pitcher to drop seven consecutive decisions or starts for the Reds since Homer Bailey lost seven straight starts in 2018.
The game was tied at 2 before Chicago pushed across four runs in the sixth, helped by four walks. Sogard reached on a bases-loaded walk against Amir Garrett before Pederson’s two-run single lifted the Cubs to a 5-2 lead. Bryant added an RBI single, extending his hitting streak to 11 games.
ANGELS 4, ATHLETICS 0: Shohei Ohtani hit a key two-run single, Alex Cobb struck out eight over seven scoreless innings to win consecutive starts for the first time this season, and Los Angeles won in Oakland, California.
Cobb (3-2) allowed three hits and walked two facing Oakland for the first time since 2018 while with Baltimore. He improved to 5-3 over 11 career starts against the A’s.
Los Angeles stopped a two-game skid after dropping the first two games of the series and snapped Oakland’s three-game winning streak. Ohtani was the losing pitcher Friday night despite holding the A’s to three hits in six-plus innings.
The Angels went ahead on David Fletcher’s grounder in the fifth, when the Angels scored four unearned runs following one of three wild pitches by Frankie Montas. Ohtani’s single made it 3-0.
TIGERS 6, YANKEES 1: Jonathan Schoop homered and Spencer Turnbull pitched well into the sixth inning as Detroit won at home.
Turnbull (4-2) allowed one run on three hits and three walks in 5 2/3 innings. He struck out six to improve to 3-0 with a 1.33 ERA in his past four starts, including a no-hitter against the Seattle Mariners.
Yankees starter Deivi Garcia (0-2) was called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre before the game and allowed five runs – four earned – and five hits in 4 1/3 innings.
New York has lost the first two games of a weekend series at last-place Detroit after winning seven of eight.
PADRES 11, ASTROS 8: Fernando Tatis Jr. launched a monstrous, three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to tie it, Wil Myers hit a three-run drive in the 12th and San Diego won at Houston.
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