Lengthy suspensions handed out to members of wild Angels-Braves brawl that saw fists, tackles

The large hitters successful Tuesday night's brawl betwixt the Los Angeles Angels and Atlanta Braves person each been fixed a harsh punishment.

Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler and Braves pitcher Reynaldo Lopez were each fixed seven-game suspensions for their roles successful the benches-clearing affair.

Lopez threw a transportation up and successful connected Soler, which the second appeared to instrumentality objection to. Soler past charged astatine Lopez, and the 2 began to speech galore punches - not galore of which landed.

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Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler charges Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo Lopez connected the mound during an MLB crippled astatine Angel Stadium successful Anaheim, California, connected April 7, 2026. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire)

Soler was tackled to the crushed by Braves manager Walt Weiss earlier immoderate large harm was done, and Lopez was forced retired of the scrum.

The Angels subordinate received a lasting ovation arsenic helium walked backmost to the dugout pursuing his contiguous ejection.

Weiss was an adjunct manager with the Braves in 2021 erstwhile the Braves won the World Series. Soler was the World Series MVP that year. He and López were teammates successful 2024.

Los Angeles Angels' Jorge Soler is tackled to the crushed by Atlanta Braves players arsenic a combat breaks retired during the 5th inning of a shot crippled successful Anaheim, Calif., connected April 7, 2026. (Ethan Swope/AP)

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"It’s conscionable a shame, the concern and however things unfolded," López said done a translator, according to MLB.com. "On my part, determination was ne'er immoderate intent to deed him astatine immoderate point. So, again, it’s conscionable a shame."

Soler deed a location tally disconnected López successful the archetypal inning. He’s 14-of-23 with 5 location runs and 3 doubles against López each time.

"Obviously, I person bully numbers against him," Soler said. "After the location tally and getting deed by a transportation aft that, and past helium missed mode excessively precocious and adjacent to my head. At this level, you can’t miss similar that."

A combat breaks retired during the 5th inning of a shot crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Angels and the Atlanta Braves successful Anaheim, Calif., connected April 7, 2026. (Ethan Swope/AP)

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Both players are appealing the suspensions. For Lopez, if the suspension holds, helium would miss 1 start, but possibly Atlanta could finagle with the rotation to support him sidelined astatine a minimum.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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