Home plate umpire Fieldin Culbreth was staggered by a foul ball to the mask hit by Shohei Ohtani off a 99-mph fastball from Gerrit Cole. Culbreth eventually walked off the field.
Nationals star Bryce Harper dropped his appeal and served his one-game suspension in the second game of Saturday's day-night doubleheader against the Marlins.
Bryce Harper has been suspended one game for confronting an umpire after being ejected from Monday night's game. He is appealing the suspension.
Major League Baseball is reviewing Washington Nationals slugger Bryce Harper's confrontation with an umpire to decide whether he should be disciplined.
The Nationals' Bryce Harper admitted to directing a "couple choice words" toward umpire Brian Knight during Washington's postgame celebration after Knight tossed him from the dugout.
Yoenis Cespedes' decision to stare at a ball wedged into the bottom of the outfield wall in a spring training game despite knowing full well he could retrieve it didn't seem to worry the Mets.
