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K-Rod banned for 2 games

THE New York Mets suspended four-time All-Star reliever Francisco Rodriguez for two games on Thursday after his arrest on suspicion of assaulting his 53-year-old father-in-law inside the Mets' ballpark.

He was released without bail on Thursday after his arraignment on misdemeanor charges of assault and harassment that could result in up to a year in jail.

Rodriguez, known as K-Rod, was taken into custody at the Mets ballpark Citi Field after Wednesday's game, a 2-6 loss to Colorado Rockies, during which Rodriguez grew visibly upset that he was not summoned from the bullpen to pitch.

Prosecutors said his wife, Daian Pena, witnessed the altercation in a hallway outside a room reserved for players' families, reporting that Rodriguez asked her father to step out of the room and into the hall.

"She then observed the defendant pin her father against a wall and punch her father multiple times in the face and head," the Queens County DA's office said.

The victim, Carlos Pena, was taken to a hospital, treated and released, police said. Rodriguez attempted to leave the ballpark in his white Lamborghini but was called back to the clubhouse where he was arrested. Police said he was locked up in a holding cell inside the ballpark because it may have been dangerous to take a famous athlete to jail.




 

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