Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias was arrested Sunday night and charged with a domestic violence felony after a physical altercation with his wife at a stadium in South Los Angeles, authorities said Monday.
The altercation occurred following a Major League Soccer match at BMO Stadium, according to Assistant Chief Chris Carr of the Exposition Park Department of Public Safety, which manages the stadium and surrounding area.
Urias, 27, was arrested shortly after 11 p.m. and was released on $50,000 bail just before 5 a.m. Monday, according to a booking document from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He is scheduled to appear in court on September 27.
Additional information about the details of the arrest was not immediately available.
On Monday, the The Los Angeles Dodgers said it is “aware of an incident” involving the player.
“While we try to determine all the facts, he will not be traveling with the team,” the team said in a statement issued by Jon Weisman, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Dodgers. “The organization has no further comment at this time.”
Neither Major League Baseball nor Urias’ agent immediately responded to requests for comment Monday afternoon.
The arrest came around three years after Urias, a star Dodgers player earning more than $14 million a year, was placed on administrative leave following a similar incident in which he was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on suspicion of “intimate partner battery.”
Urias, 22, was involved in an altercation with a woman in a shopping center parking lot, according to a 2019 article in The Los Angeles Times. The city prosecutor agreed not to file misdemeanor charges until Urias was arrested again for violent criminal behavior that year, the newspaper reported.
Major League Baseball’s domestic violence and sexual abuse policy, implemented in 2016, provides for the possibility of disciplinary action, including suspensions, even if the legal process is not completed.
The policy states that players can be placed on paid administrative leave for up to seven days while the commissioner’s office investigates accusations against them, but the leave has been extended in past cases.
Urias was suspended 20 games, or about three weeks, following the 2019 incident, Mr. Weisman said by email. He did not comment on whether Urias would be suspended as a result of Sunday’s arrest.
