Puig in a scrape with Miami bouncer

[OAKAS]

MIAMI — Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig suffered a swollen eye and facial bruises during a fight with a bouncer.

Miami police spokesman Major Delrish Moss says the injuries happened Wednesday night as the Cuban player was leaving the Blue Martini bar at bouncers' request following an argument with his sister.

Moss says that "at some point" Puig and a bouncer began to fight, leaving Puig with the swollen left eye and "minor bumps and bruises" to his face. He says the bouncer got a busted lip and minor facial bruises.

The spokesman says the bouncer claimed Puig sucker-punched him; Puig said the bouncer got too aggressive. Moss says neither wanted to press charges.

Puig was not arrested, TMZ reported. ESPN Deportes' Renato Bermudez said in a tweet that Puig had been hit in the face. A Miami radio host corroborated those accounts in a tweet Friday:

 

[DNoonan]

Heard it all started b/c the staff started to step in when he began to get physical with his sister. He deserves any beating he took. I wanted to love this guy when he joined the Dodgers but now the more I learn about him the more I can't stand him.

 

[JustinCruise]

Sounds like the bouncer won

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

Take his money he doesn't deserve, beat him, handcuff him, put him in a helicopter, fly about 25 feet above Cuban soil and throw him out with a tattoo on his forhead that says "property of Cuba"

I should be head of "deportation" for the state department.

 

[CoachCB]

Big mistake by the bouncer not to press charges. He could EASILY walk w/ 6 figures ($100K or more).

 

[DesertNole]

Bouncers in south Florida are the worst, they are all hopped up on roids and coke. Too quick to go ballistic on patrons.

 

[DNoonan]

That might be true about Miami bouncers in general but if a patron sucker punches the owner/manager think the bouncers are doing their job by knuckling up.