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Hillman suspended one game

Associated Press

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City manager Trey Hillman was suspended one game by Major League Baseball for spitting in an umpire's eye, something Hillman said was entirely accidental if it happened at all. Hillman got word of the suspension Wednesday morning, just hours before his second-place Royals played the first-place Detroit Tigers in the AL Central. On Monday, while arguing that a called third strike on Willie Bloomquist was low, Hillman was ejected from the dugout by plate umpire Paul Em ...

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