Overview
- Padres reliever Ron Marinaccio hit Orioles slugger Gunnar Henderson with a pitch in the bottom of the ninth on June 13, was ejected, and manager Craig Stammen was tossed after arguing the call.
- Major League Baseball announced on June 15 that Marinaccio would be suspended three games and fined and that Stammen would be suspended one game and fined, with the ruling issued by Michael Hill of MLB On-Field Operations.
- Marinaccio filed an appeal of his three-game suspension, which MLB said places the discipline in abeyance until the appeals process is complete.
- The incident followed an earlier at-bat in the same game when Orioles rookie Trey Gibson hit Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts in the head, producing conflicting accounts about whether later pitches were retaliatory or routine inside pitching.
- Stammen served the one-game ban with bench coach Randy Knorr acting as interim manager and the appeal leaves the Padres’ bullpen plans uncertain if Marinaccio ultimately must miss games; the league’s action underscores MLB’s enforcement of intentional hit-by-pitch rules.