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 | Bad Boy Brawlers Suspended 4 Games Thursday, July 14th, 2016 The league commissioner announced that two players had been suspended for inappropriate conduct. He told BNN, "What I'm trying to do with these penalties is say, we can't stop you from doing these things, but if you do them, you have to understand you will pay the consequences." Baseball can be an intense game and on-field confrontations happen. However, the league disciplinary policy is to punish, sometimes severely, those who decide to settle things with their fists. When Grégory Lesage of the Long Island Ducks and Jotaro Fukuda of the Sandy Springs Spartans got into a scuffle during a game, both players knew that a suspension would be forthcoming. Sure enough, today it was announced that both players will each receive a 4-game suspension for their actions in a recent game at Long Island Stadium. Lesage is batting .302 this year with 5 home runs, 41 RBIs and 38 runs scored. He has 110 hits in 364 at-bats. Fukuda's record this year is 1-and-2 with no saves and a 3.06 ERA. He has given up 36 hits in 50 innings with 55 strikeouts. |   |
