DODGERS NOTEBOOK: GAGNE WILL SIT FOR TWO.Byline: TONY JACKSON
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer ATLANTA -- Dodgers reliever Eric Gagne, who was believed to have served his two-game suspension April 4-5 for barking at umpires from the dugout while on the disabled list last season, is serving it again now. Gagne was activated from the disabled list Tuesday for the first time since undergoing right elbow surgery April 7. He is sitting out the final two games of this week's series with Atlanta, which ends tonight, then will rejoin the club when it opens a seven- game homestand Thursday. The first service of the suspension was negated when the Dodgers placed Gagne on the DL on April 6, at which point club officials chose to follow their usual practice of backdating Predating a document or instrument prior to the date it was actually drawn. The negotiability of an instrument is not affected by the fact that it is backdated. the move to the day after that player's most recent game appearance. Gagne's last appearance had come in a Freeway Series The term Freeway Series refers to a series of baseball games played between Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of the American League and the Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League. exhibition March 31, so the move was made retroactive to April 1. ``You can't be on two lists at the same time,'' said Dodgers assistant general manager Kim Ng Kim Ng (Chinese: ; Pinyin: Wǔ Pèiqín; born November 17, 1968; Ng is pronounced as a velar nasal) is an American baseball executive for the Major League Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers organization. , referring to the disabled list and the suspended list. Ng said the decision to backdate back·date tr.v. back·dat·ed, back·dat·ing, back·dates To mark or supply with a date that is earlier than the actual date: backdate a check. the move wasn't a mistake or an oversight, but rather an effort to avoid giving Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. any reason to think the Dodgers were trying to abuse the system by having Gagne serve his suspensionwhen he wasn't physically capable of pitching. At the time, club officials thought Gagne's elbow soreness was a short- term injury. But he underwent a nerve test April 6 that revealed the need for an operation. To make room for Gagne, the Dodgers optioned infielder Oscar Robles Oscar M. Robles (b. April 9, 1976, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico) has spent much of this decade as a third baseman for the Mexico City Red Devils (Diablos Rojos del México), and briefly as an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers from May 2005 through 2006. to Triple-A LasVegas. --Parties meet: Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny and manager Grady Little met privately before game time Tuesday night to discuss Monday's incident in which Penny reacted angrily to being removed from a game two outs shy of qualifying for the victory. Penny threw a temper tantrum temper tantrum Pediatrics A prolonged anger reaction in an infant or child, characterized by screaming, kicking, noisy and noisome behavior, or throwing him/her self on the ground to get his/her way from a parent/caretaker/warden. Cf Adult temper tantrum. in the dugout that was caught by cameras during a national telecast. Little said about an hour before the meeting that details would be kept private. ``I'm not going to talk to him through (the media),'' Little said. ``I'm going to talk to him like a man.'' Minutes before the meeting, Penny told reporters he stood by his postgame comments Monday, when he criticized Little for not giving him a chance to pitch his way out of the jam. --Still out: Second baseman Jeff Kent missed his third consecutive game with a sprained left wrist, but he swung a bat in the indoor cage and has a good chance of playing tonight. |
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