Josh Beckett was handed a six game suspension and an undisclosed fine for 'throwing at the head' of Bobby Abreu during Sunday's game in LA. Beckett immediately appealed the suspension allowing him to make his next scheduled start on Saturday. The incident occured after Abreu took exception to the time Beckett was taking on the mound and asked for and was permitted time as Beckett began his windup. Personally, I think the granting of time to batters is getting out of control. If the umpiring crew had felt that Beckett intentionally threw at Abreu, he would have been ejected from the game; however, that was not the case.
For more on this story, read Ian Browne's article at
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090414&content_id=4266542&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos
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