The Arizona Diamondbacks certainly got the worst of the suspensions handed down by MLB on Friday related to Tuesday's brawl with the Los Angeles Dodgers. And some of the D-backs players are none too pleased.

Eight players or coaches were suspended from both teams, totaling 24 games. Fifteen of those went to two Diamondbacks players — pitcher Ian Kennedy, who got a 10-game punishment and utility man Eric Hinske, who was suspended five games. Both of those are pending appeals.

A few Diamondbacks players vented their frustrations on Twitter, led by pitcher Brandon McCarthy, baseball's unanimous king of 140 characters:

"I had him in fantasy once and he killed me so...five games?"- how I assume someone from MLB decided on Hinske's suspension

— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) June 14, 2013

(USA Today)

Major League Baseball made official on Friday its punishments related to Tuesday's Los Angeles Dodgers-Arizona Diamondbacks brawls. After mulling it over a few days, the league suspended eight players/coaches — Ian Kennedy leading the list with 10 games — and fined four players, including Yasiel Puig.

Here's a rundown of the discipline by MLB:

• Ian Kennedy of the Diamondbacks: 10-game suspension.

• Eric Hinske of the Diamondbacks: five-game suspension.

• J.P. Howell, Skip Schumaker and Mark McGwire of the Dodgers: two-game suspensions each.

• Ronald Belisario and Don Mattingly of the Dodgers and Kirk Gibson of the Diamondbacks: one-game suspensions each.

• Yasiel Puig and Zack Greinke of the Dodgers and Miguel Montero and Gerardo Parra of the Diamondbacks: all fined an undisclosed amount, but not suspended.

• The players/coaches suspended were all fined an undisclosed amount too.

• The Dodgers as a team were assessed an additional fine for letting players from the disabled list leave the bench.

There's nothing too surprising here. Ian Kennedy's 10-gamer

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You've been waiting for a good ol' profane manager rant and Detroit Tigers skipper Jim Leyland wants to be the one to give it to you. Leyland, obviously frustrated with the criticism the Tigers' closer role has gotten, blew off some steam in an expletive-laced rant to Bob Nightengale of USA Today:

"Some fans believe [Jose] Valverde is a Leyland creation," Leyland says. "They think the manager loves him or he wouldn't be here. I don't understand who they think we should be closing with. I'm asking that question, 'Who the (expletive) should I be closing with?' I mean, do they want some rookie kid? I don't understand that.

"Who the (expletive) should I close with? Who do you want me to close with? Who the (expletive) do you want to be the closer? … I don't know what the (expletive) these people want. They just throw stuff out there. People just talk, they don't think about it.

"Sometimes it boggles my mind."

(AP)

By the time, Troy Tulowitzki injured his ribs diving for a ground ball in the eighth inning of Thursday's game, the Colorado Rockies had to think that they were cursed. When Tulowitzki left the game, that made three Rockies stars — Carlos Gonzalez and Dexter Fowler being the other two — who had left the game because of injury.

Tulo's case is the worst. He's been diagnosed with a broken rib and is expected to miss 4-6 weeks. That's not what the Rockies or their star shortstop wanted to hear, for two reasons: 1. They've exceeded expectations and at this point are a legit contender in the wide-open NL West. 2. Tulowitzki, as good as he is, has battled injuries throughout his career.

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Mariano Rivera played his final regular season game at Oakland's O.Co Coliseum on Thursday, and it's probably one he'd like to forget.

Rivera — baseball's all-time saves leader who is planing to retire at season's end — gave up the game-winning single in the 18th inning of a marathon between his New York Yankees and the Oakland Athletics. Nate Freiman singled to left field, plating John Jaso for a 3-2 victory. The win gave the first-place A's a three-game sweep of the Yankees.

Among the odd/impressive/interesting happenings in the game:

• Lots of zeroes: The Yankees scored their two runs in the first inning. The A's scored their first two in the third. That left a lot of time before the A's scored again in the 18th. It's actually not the longest game the A's played this season, though. You might recall they played a 19-inning game on April 29, that crept over into April 30. They beat the Angels in that game 10-8.

• Yankee futility: The Yankees fourth-eighth hitters — Mark Teixeira, Travis Hafner, Kevin Youkilis and Vernon Wells — were a combined 0-for-28 in the game with three walks. Total, they left 20 men on base.

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After 10 MLB games, Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig has inspired a brawl, many nicknames and T-shirts, crazy merch sales, a fresh round of "small sample size" rants and now this — a new rock band called Puig Destroyer.

Riley Breckenridge, who is most famous for playing drums in the hard rock band Thrice, has announced he's starting a "baseball-themed grindcore" side project and he's calling Puig Destroyer (not to be confused with Pig Destroyer).

The new band also includes Mike Minnick (from Curl Up & Die) plus Ian Miller and Jon Howell (from Kowloon Walled City).

Breckenridge isn't just a rock dude who's a bandwagon Puig fan. His baseball fandom/knowledge is legit. He writes the "Battle for Los Angeles" column on The Score and is half of @Productive Outs. His Puig Destroyer cohort Miller is the other half of Productive Outs.

In a post on his website announcing the band, Breckenridge wrote:

We’ve got basic tracking done for our debut EP, and we should have a track from said EP fairly soon. Please stay tuned for updates/tunes. The roughs I’ve heard are ridiculously awesome and fun and raw as all hell. Kinda like Yasiel Puig.

We're still waiting word of the first child born in L.A. named Puig. If Yasiel continues to impress, we'll likely have a Puig wine and a Puig hamburger by the end of the season, as well as a squealing "Pweeeeeeeeeg" iPhone app.

UPDATE: Puig Destroyer has now posted its first song, titled "One Man, Five Tools." It's quiet, acoustic and gentle. Sike! It's loud, screamy and brief, at only 48 seconds. If you listen closely, you might hear a cameo from a certain famous Dodgers announcer. Take note: It's a name-your-price download, so it was be yours for significantly less than the $42 million the Dodgers paid Puig.

One more thing: Puig Destroyer T-shirts are also now available.

(AP)Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan beaten to within inches of his life outside Dodgers Stadium in 2011, is back home with his family in Santa Cruz — but that's not as good of news as it might sound.

Stow was forced to leave the Bakersfield live-in rehab facility where he was being treated after his insurance stopped covering his care there.

The Stow family announced Bryan was home for the first time in two years in a recent blog post simply titled "Home." What sounded like an achievement, soon turned bittersweet:

"The insurance company has ceased payment for [Centre for Neuro Skills], so Bryan has come home. Let us clarify something very important — Bryan could have benefited greatly by staying at CNS longer. We are so glad to have him home, but as prepared as we thought we were, it was a difficult transition. Bryan requires so much assistance and it is impossible for Ann and Dave to do it alone. Bryan requires 24 hour nursing care, but this is not covered by insurance. So we had to hire care givers in order to help Bryan to get up and showered in the morning, and get dressed and in bed in the evening. We are now the ones administrating his medical care, scheduling all his appointments, and preparing all his meals. We are not complaining…we have Bryan home!

This is not one of those posts where a guy in the stands holding a beer catches a foul ball with one hand and high-fives his buds and achieves hero status on the Internet for 10-24 hours. This is a post where an unfortunate fan loses his balance, takes a tumble, (probably) loses his beer and gets laughed at by the Internet.

Such is the risk of living in 2013. Such is the risk of being a Mets fan. Because let's face it, it's at least six times funnier because he's a Mets fan.