https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...y-insensitive-gesture/?utm_term=.6d50b6251fb1
oct 28 2017 HOUSTON — Houston Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel was suspended for five games at the beginning of the 2018 season for the racially insensitive gesture he directed at Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish on Friday night — a punishment that goes well beyond Major League Baseball’s precedent but that spares the Astros from losing one of their top hitters for one or more World Series games.
“There is no place in our game for any behavior like the behavior we witnessed last night,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said at a news conference announcing the suspension Saturday, about four hours ahead of Game 4. “There is no excuse or explanation that makes that type of behavior acceptable.”
Gurriel, a 33-year-old of Cuban descent, had just homered off Darvish, who is of Iranian and Japanese descent, and who grew up in Japan, in the bottom of the second inning of the Astros’ eventual 5-3 victory and was sitting on the dugout bench when a television camera caught him pulling back the skin at the corners of his eyes to make them appear slanted. He also appeared to say “Chinito” — or, “little Chinese boy” — to a teammate.
