Machado suspended 4 games for brawl with Royals

Major League Baseball doled out some discipline Thursday for the brawl at Camden Yards earlier this week, giving Baltimore Orioles shortstop Manny Machado a four-game suspension and a $2,500 fine for charging the mound and punching Yordano Ventura.

Machado, who told reporters after Tuesday's altercation with the Kansas City Royals he had no regrets about attacking Ventura after getting hit with a 99-mph fastball, has appealed the suspension and is in the lineup for Thursday's series opener with the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

Manager Buck Showalter told reporters his appeal won't likely be heard until after the four-game series with the Blue Jays that concludes Sunday.

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Ventura, the combative 25-year-old who incited benches-clearing incidents in three consecutive starts last year, was handed a nine-game suspension and undisclosed fine. Following Tuesday's fifth-inning melee, which led to his third career ejection, Ventura claimed the heater that hit Machado merely "got away" from him.

"The guy has electric stuff and the talent is all there, but between the ears, there is a circuit board off balance," Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said. "I don't get it. I don't get it."

Machado, a two-time All-Star who has appeared in all 58 of Baltimore's games this season, will head into Thursday's contest in Toronto hitting .303/.375/.593 (155 OPS+) with 15 homers and 22 doubles while trailing only Mike Trout and Jose Altuve for the American League lead in WAR.