Major League Baseball suspended Milwaukee Brewers reliever Abner Uribe for one game and fined him after a “triple crotch chop” celebration following the team’s 6-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Uribe appealed the decision and is set to be available for a B
By the time Abner Uribe turned toward the Cardinals dugout, the win was already sealed. The celebration that followed—described as a “triple crotch chop”—wasn’t.
Major League Baseball suspended Uribe one game for “inappropriate actions” and issued a fine after the Milwaukee Brewers reliever performed the gesture following a tense inning against the St. Louis Cardinals. The league also announced that Uribe has appealed the suspension on Friday. May 29. and will be available for the Brewers’ game Friday at Houston.
The Brewers’ manager Pat Murphy didn’t dress it up after Tuesday’s 6-0 victory. After Uribe threw a pitch up and in on Cardinals catcher Ivan Herrera in the eighth inning on May 26. he got out of the inning and then turned toward the Cardinals dugout to celebrate. Murphy said the moment crossed a line.
“It’s just unacceptable,” Murphy told reporters following the victory. “I don’t know what got over him. I mean, he’s been an emotional guy. That’s just not how we do things. I was embarrassed by it. Why are we doing it in a 6-0 ballgame?”
Murphy’s anger landed in the middle of a simmering dispute that had been building for days between the Cardinals and Brewers. Uribe had claimed that Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol threatened to intentionally hit Milwaukee batters after the Brewers were allegedly too obvious in relaying stolen signs from the dugout.
That backdrop made Uribe’s display feel louder inside the dugouts than it might have otherwise. After the dust settled on May 26, Marmol later acknowledged that he’d confronted Brewers players the day before, saying he chirped with them regarding the relayed signs Monday.
“We felt like they were being pretty demonstrative about relaying from the dugout,” Marmol said. “I looked over [to the Brewers dugout] and said, ‘Don’t do it, be smart, you’re going to get somebody hurt, what are we trying to do here?’ And that was it.”
What came next in the bullpen was a quick pivot from scoreboard control to clubhouse friction. Uribe’s gesture—delivered right after a pitch that put Herrera in the crosshairs—produced a sharper reaction from the Brewers than the game situation alone would suggest. One manager called the reaction unacceptable and said he was embarrassed. while the Cardinals’ manager pointed to warnings he says he made over sign-relaying before the exchange escalated.
Now MLB has turned the moment into a formal consequence: a one-game suspension for “inappropriate actions” and a fine for Uribe. His appeal is in motion, and the league says he will be available for Milwaukee when it takes on Houston on Friday, May 29.
Milwaukee’s calendar keeps moving, but the frayed edges between the franchises remain part of the story: for the Brewers, the immediate task is getting past the sting of the suspension; for the Cardinals, the dispute over conduct and signs has already moved from irritation to league action.
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