Toronto’s Colabello Suspended, White Sox Pull Off Triple Play
Major League Baseball came down hard on Chris Colabello the first baseman/outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays. Colabello was suspended without pay for 80 games after testing positive for a performance enhancing substance, the league announced Friday.
The positive test from Colabello for dehydrochlormethyl testosterone, which is an anabolic steroid sold as Turinabol, was a violation of the league’s drug prevention and treatment program. The suspension will begin immediately.
Colabello via a prepared statement the players union released said he was informed by the association that the league found a bound substance in his urine.
He said since he was told on March 13, he has spent every moment trying to determine how it happened and why.
The veteran is currently batting .069 in his 10 games for Toronto this season. However, last season, his first with Toronto, Colabello hit .321 with 15 home runs and 54 runs batted in.
Colabello said he would never do anything that would compromise the integrity of baseball. He added that he was saddened for how this would impact the fans, his teammates and the organization.
Colabello will lose almost $227,900 of his salary this season. Prior to signing with Toronto, Colabello played with Minnesota for two seasons.
White Sox Pull of Triple Play
On Friday night, the Chicago White Sox pulled off their first triple play in close to a decade. The play was historic for MLB in the White Sox win on Friday over Texas 5-0.
The play went 9-3-2-6-2-5 making it the first every triple play of that combination in the history of the league.
Texas had the bases loaded with no outs in the seventh. A running catch in right by Adam Eaton was the first out. Eaton threw to first base but Jose Abreu missed his tag at first on Ian Desmond. However, Desmond overran first base and eventually was tagged out.
Abreu then threw to Dioner Navarro the catcher who saw a Rangers player caught between second and third so he threw to Tyler Saladino the shortstop.
At that time Prince Fielder broke from third toward home and Saladino threw back to Navarro who with Todd Frazier were able to tag Fielder out during a run down to pull off the triple play.
This was the first White Sox triple play since September of 2006 versus Detroit. The Rangers had not been a victim of such a play since June of 1991 versus Seattle.
