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Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland has been suspended for one game and fined an undisclosed by Major League Baseball for “inappropriate and aggressive conduct” during Monday night’s game against the Rays.

Leyland will serve the suspension Wednesday night.

The Detroit skipper was ejected in the third inning of that contest — the same one in which Tampa Bay’s Matt Garza threw a no-hitter — by second base umpire Marty Foster for arguing a stolen base call.

After the game, Foster claimed that Leyland deliberately spit on him in his report to disciplinary czar Bob Watson, MLB‘s vice president of on-field operations, a claim that Leyland vehemently denied.

“He accused me of something I did not do,” Leyland told reporters Monday. “He said that I deliberately spit on him, and I did not do that. It’s a blatant lie. Did I spray him with sunflower seeds? Yes. Did I deliberately? No. I don’t spit on the ground.”

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