{"id":82804,"date":"2024-08-12T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=82804"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T19:43:57","slug":"jarren-duran-suspended-two-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/12\/jarren-duran-suspended-two-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarren Duran Suspended Two Games After Sunday&#8217;s Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox center fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duranja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jarren Duran<\/a> has been suspended two games after directing a homophobic slur toward a fan during Sunday&#8217;s game against the Houston Astros. The suspension will begin with Monday night&#8217;s game against the Texas Rangers at Fenway Park. Duran&#8217;s two-game salary will be donated to PFLAG, the Federation of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. The incident occurred in the sixth inning Sunday when durran was at bat. A fan was heard heckling Duran and the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1822812229684883664\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NESN broadcast<\/a> mic picked up his comment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RedSox<\/a> today issued a two-game suspension to Jarren Duran. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YlinXxOAWy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/YlinXxOAWy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Red Sox (@RedSox) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedSox\/status\/1823075714700038641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jarren Duran Suspended for Two Games<\/h2>\n<p>Duran did issue an apologize in a statement Sunday night for using &#8220;a truly horrific word when responding to a fan.&#8221; Shorlty after the announcement of his suspension, Duran told reporters that he &#8220;let the moment get the best of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspension isn&#8217;t the only occurance where a player uttered anti-gay slurs. In 2017, MLB suspended Oakland Athletics outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=,joycema01&amp;search=Matt+Joyce&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Joyce<\/a> for two games for directing an a derogatory comment to a fan. Then-Toronto Blue Jays outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pillake01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Pillar<\/a> was given a two-game suspension in that same season after uttering a similar slur to Duran&#8217;s at Atlanta Braves reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/motteja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Motte<\/a>. Five years earlier, Blue Jays infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/escobyu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-08-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yunel Escobar<\/a> was banned for three games for wearing eye-black stickers with a Spanish slur.<\/p>\n<p>Duran is having a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/02\/boston-red-sox-jarren-duran-franchise-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">breakout season<\/a> for the Red Sox,\u00a0 hitting .291\/.350\/503 with 14 home runs and 28 stolen bases. He leads the American League with 36 doubles and the majors with 13 triples. He was named to his first All-Star team and won All-Star Game MVP after hitting a go-ahead home run in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Sunday&#8217;s game, Duran was the recipient of the team&#8217;s Heart &amp; Hustle Award for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox center fielder Jarren Duran has been suspended two games after directing a homophobic slur toward a fan during Sunday&#8217;s game against the Houston Astros. The suspension will begin with Monday night&#8217;s game against the Texas Rangers at Fenway Park. Duran&#8217;s two-game salary will be donated to PFLAG, the Federation of Parents and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":82805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1071,35],"tags":[3029],"class_list":["post-82804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","category-mlb","category-news","tag-jarren-duran"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}