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Major League Baseball is now looking into the benches-clearing incident between the Astros and Mariners on Wednesday night after Houston reliever Hector Neris allegedly used a homophobic slur toward Mariners star Julio Rodriguez, according to The Athletic.
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The playoff race is heating up in its final days, and tensions were on the rise at T-Mobile Park between the Mariners and Astros. As the two American League West rivals battled on Wednesday night in Seattle, Houston reliever Hector Neris whiffed Mariners All-Star Julio Rodriguez in the sixth inning and then taunted him, leading the benches on both sides to clear.