Hell hath no fury like Gary Sheffield on the receiving end of cheap shots. In the wake of finding out on Monday he'd been suspended four games for charging the mound in Cleveland, Detroit's designated hitter said he still plans to get even with those players who joined the fray to punch him instead of being peacemakers.
"When guys take cheap shots, I take that personally," he said. "When I find out who they are, they'll have to deal with me. I'm not one of those guys to sit here and talk about what I'm going to do, I'm just going to do what I'm going to do. But when I challenge a man, I challenge him to his face. "It will never end until I get you. That's just the way it is. I don't mess with nobody. I don't bother anybody, but when you bother me, it's on. It could be off the field, on the field, it doesn't matter. I don't care about what the league thinks or about what they do. I have enough money to cover any fine they've got, trust me."
Bob Watson, vice president of on-field operations for baseball, announced Sheffield and three Cleveland players were suspended and fined for their roles in Friday's night bench-clearing brawl.
Sheffield said the Cleveland players "are going to be penalized by me, too."
The three were pitcher Fausto Carmona, six games for what Watson called "aggressive actions leading up to and during the incident," and catcher Victor Martinez and second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera, three games apiece for "aggressive actions during the incident."
The incident started when Sheffield was hit by a pitch two batters after Miguel Cabrera's second home run of the game off Carmona. Sheffield trotted to first without saying a word. He clearly was seething, though, only to have Carmona make a pickoff attempt that further infuriated him.
Source: Detroit News
