NEW YORK — Yankees pitcher Jimmy Cordero was suspended for the rest of the season by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday for violating the sport’s domestic violence policy.
MLB said the 31-year-old right-hander accepted the suspension and will miss the season’s final 76 games and the postseason.
Cordero was 3-2 with a 3.86 ERA in one start and 30 relief appearances and has a $720,000 salary, the major league minimum. He missed the 2021 season after Tommy John surgery while with the Chicago White Sox organization and spent 2022 with the Yankees’ Triple-A team at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
The Yankees said in a statement they supported MLB’s discipline and “there is no justification for domestic violence.”
New York pitcher Domingo Germán was given an 81-game suspension under the domestic violence policy that he served in 2019 and 2020. Germán last week pitched MLB’s 24th perfect game.
ANGELS: All-Star center fielder Mike Trout had surgery on his fractured left wrist, two days after he was injured fouling off a pitch.
Also, two-way All-Star Shohei Ohtani was in the lineup as the designated hitter a day after coming out the game in the sixth inning due to a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand. Ohtani said then that he’s not planning on pitching in the All-Star Game next week in Seattle. It remains to be seen whether he’ll DH for the American League.
There’s no specific timetable for Trout’s return, although recovery is generally several weeks.
CARDINALS: The St. Louis Cardinals placed right-hander Adam Wainwright and catcher Andrew Knizner on the injured list.
Wainwright was placed on the 15-day injured list with a right shoulder strain. He was lifted in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s 15-2 loss to Miami after giving up consecutive one-out walks. The 41-year-old Wainwright gave up seven runs, four earned, and seven hits.
Knizner, 28, was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right groin area injury after he was hit by a foul ball in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game. He finished the half inning and was replaced by Willson Contreras.
MARLINS: The Miami Marlins placed center fielder Jonathan Davis on the injured list with a right knee sprain a day after he was carted off the field in a win over the St. Louis Cardinals.
ROYALS: Right-hander Zack Greinke was placed on the 15-day injured list with right shoulder tendinitis, after discomfort in his last start prompted him to be pulled early.
Greinke (1-9) gave up six runs in 5 1/3 innings on Tuesday in a 9-3 loss to Minnesota before leaving the mound a team athletic trainer. Greinke returned to Kansas City for a physician consultation, but Manager Matt Quatraro said the team is confident the injury is minor and hopeful he’ll only miss one turn with the All-Star break approaching next week.
HOME RUN DERBY: Chicago White Sox All-Star Luis Robert Jr. plans to participate in baseball’s Home Run Derby in Seattle on Monday.
Texas Rangers slugger Adolis García also is part for the field for the Home Run Derby.
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
ORIOLES 6, YANKEES 3: Touted prospect Colton Cowser hit an RBI single in his major league debut and scored the go-ahead run when fellow rookie Jordan Westburg followed with a two-run triple, sending Dean Kremer and visiting Baltimore past New York.
Kremer (9-4) struck out a career-high 10 in seven innings of four-hit ball. Ryan O’Hearn lined a two-run homer in the ninth, and All-Star relievers Yennier Cano and Félix Bautista combined to get the final six outs as the second-place Orioles won for only the second time in eight games.
Josh Donaldson and Anthony Volpe homered for the Yankees, who had won the first two games of this four-game series between AL East playoff contenders. Kyle Higashioka had an RBI single.
REDS 9, NATIONALS 2: Elly De La Cruz hit a massive solo homer and two doubles after a mix-up with a covering on the knob of his bat, and surging Cincinnati won at Washington.
Joey Votto also homered and finished with three hits as Cincinnati won for the seventh time in eight games. Will Benson had two hits and two RBI for the NL Central leaders, and Graham Ashcraft pitched six effective innings in his first win since May 28.
De La Cruz, one of the majors’ top rookies and a key engine behind Cincinnati’s rise to the top of its division, had what appeared to be an empty sensor cover on the knob of his bat. But it was removed after Nationals Manager Dave Martinez questioned its use before the infielder batted in the second.
Umpires reviewed the legality of the knob cover with the league office and informed De La Cruz he was allowed to put it back on his bat for his second at-bat in the third.
Major League Baseball said in a statement that “the housing used by the player is permissible and approved, which was communicated to the Nationals.”
After flying out to left in the third, De La Cruz opened the fifth with a 455-foot drive to right-center. He then pointed at the end of his bat before rounding the bases.
ASTROS 6, ROCKIES 4: Yainer Díaz homered in his first two at-bats and Jeremy Peña added a two-run shot in his return from injury to lead Houston past visiting Colorado.
Díaz had a solo home run in the second inning and his two-run homer made it 3-0 in the fourth in his first career two-homer game.
Peña’s home run came later in that inning to push the lead to 5-0. He returned after missing five games because of a stiff neck.
ATHLETICS 12, TIGERS 3: Ryan Noda homered in a three-run first inning and visiting Oakland won for the fourth time in five games.
PHILLIES 8, RAYS 4: Taijuan Walker overcame early struggles to win his sixth consecutive start and Philadelphia extended its road winning streak to 11 games,
It’s the third-longest road winning streak in Phillies history, trailing a 13-game run in 1976 and 12-game stretch that spanned the 1887 and ’88 seasons.
Tampa Bay has lost a season-high four in a row and 10 of 16 overall.
BRAVES 8, GUARDIANS 1: All-Stars Sean Murphy and Matt Olson homered as visiting Atlanta bounced back from one of its rare losses over the past month by smashing Cleveland.
Murphy hit a solo shot in the third inning off Cal Quantrill (2-6) and Olson hit a 428-foot blast in the ninth as the Braves collected 19 hits and took the series finale after their winning streak was stopped at nine on Tuesday.
Austin Riley also connected as the Braves homered in their 23rd straight game, baseball’s longest stretch of long balls this season. They lead the majors with 166 homers and are on pace to break the single-season record of 309 set by Minnesota in 2019.
Atlanta has won 18 of 20 and 25 of 29.
MARLINS 10, CARDINALS 9: Yuli Gurriel scored from first base on a throwing error by Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks with one out in the ninth inning, and Miami rallied to win at home.
With Gurriel on first after a single and pinch-runner Garrett Hampson on second, Joey Wendle hit a dribbler back to Hicks (1-5). The pitcher’s high, errant throw got past first baseman Paul Goldschmidt to allow both runners to score.
The Cardinals’ Jordan Walker hit a two-run homer off Marlins closer A.J. Puk (4-2) in the ninth to make it 9-8.
TWINS 4, ROYALS 0: Pablo López pitched his first career shutout, a four-hitter complete with a career-high 12 strikeouts, in Minnesota’s win at home.
López (5-5) retired 15 straight from the third to the eighth inning, including a stretch with six consecutive strikeouts, to help the Twins complete a three-game sweep.
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