Source: MLB mulls discipline after Yuli Gurriel's insensitive gesture
— -- Astros first baseman? Yuli Gurriel?apologized for making a racially insensitive gesture toward Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish during Game 3 of the World Series.?
After his second-inning home run off Darvish, Gurriel motioned at his own eyes in the dugout in a mock-like gesture.
A Major League Baseball spokesman said MLB is aware of Gurriel's gesture and plans to talk to him about it. A source told ESPN's Scott Lauber that MLB is looking into potential discipline for Gurriel.?
Gurriel, speaking through a translator, said he made the gesture because he never had success against Japanese pitchers in the past. Gurriel is a Cuban native who played one year for the Yokohama DeNA Baystars of the Japan League in 2014.
"I didn't want to offend him or nobody in Japan because I have a lot of respect, I played in Japan," Gurriel said.?"Japan opened my doors to the game of baseball and I didn't mean to offend them."
Also speaking through a translator, Darvish, who is of Japanese and Iranian decent, called the gesture "disrespectful."
"I try not to care much about it, but he played in Japan and I have a lot of respect for him, so I try not to think about it too much against him," Darvish said. "Nobody's perfect.
"Everybody's different. You have to learn from it. He made a mistake and we've just got to learn from it. We are all human beings, that's what I'm saying. So it's just learn from it and we gotta move forward."
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