One week in the past, Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Rodolfo Castro offered one of the vital distinctive bloopers in current MLB historical past when his iPhone fell out of his back pocket as he slid into third base throughout a recreation towards the Arizona Diamondbacks.
It was reported final Wednesday that the league was “looking into” the incident, as Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic explained that — intentional or not — having the cellphone on him was technically in violation of MLB’s regulation prohibiting “digital gadgets on the sphere or within the dugout.”
On Tuesday afternoon, the punishment was revealed.