Francisco Rodriguez Charged with Assault

New York Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez was arrested and charged with assault following the Mets game at Citi Field in New York on August 11th.  The pitcher, nicknamed K-Rod, is charged with assaulting his 53 year old father in law in an incident outside the Mets clubhouse after the game that night.  The injured man was transported to a hospital for treatment of facial and head injuries. 

Rodriguez was already in a bad mood before the incident, apparently angry that the Mets didn’t use him in a closing situation in the team’s loss to the Colorado Rockies.  When reporters approached him after the game, K-Rod launched into an expletive laced tirade.  Following the incident, Rodriguez told an inquiring reporter to “mind your own f—- business”.  K-Rod was taken into custody shortly after that.

K-Rod is known to have a short fuse, and has had incidents with Mets players and coaches in the past where he has had to be restrained.  Saying they were “disappointed in Francisco’s inappropriate behavior” the Mets suspended him for two days without pay, which will cost K-Rod nearly $126,000 in lost salary.

Rodriguez, a 28 year old Venezuela native, sounds like a good candidate for the anger management classes that Chicago Cubs pitcher and fellow Venezuelan Carlos Zambrano went through after he had a confrontation in the dugout with a teammate earlier this season.  K-Rod is charged with third degree assault, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail in New York.  Just one more incident in yet another lost season for the New York Mets.

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