In this year's Major League Baseball annual championship "World Series", fans are not only concerned about whether the Los Angeles Dodgers, the semifinal team, can win the championship again after nearly 30 years.

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In this year's Major League Baseball annual championship Gurriel made a discriminatory move in the World Series. Screenshot of live TV broadcast

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Qian Meizhen Los Angeles report

This year's Major League Baseball (MLB) annual championship game "World Series", fans are not only concerned about the accuracy of The final team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, will not be able to win the championship again after nearly 30 years. During the World Series, a racial discrimination controversy broke out, and the players of the Houston Astros (Houston Astros) involved in this incident have been suspended by the conference.

Major League Baseball's annual championship game "World Series" is a championship game in October every year between the American League champion and the National League champion in a best-of-seven series. The Dodgers, founded in New York in 1883, moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and won the World Series in 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981 and 1988. But the Los Angeles Dodgers never won the National League championship after 1988, and of course they never had the opportunity to play in the World Series again.

In recent years, the Dodgers, who have won the Professional Baseball West Division championship for five consecutive years since 2013, finally won the National League championship this year and entered the World Series. For Los Angeles baseball fans, this annual baseball game is an important battle for whether the Dodgers can turn around, so many Los Angeles fans have been watching the progress of the World Series recently.

However, in the third game of the World Series on October 27, Yuli Gurriel, the Cuban-born main player of the Houston Astros, was caught on live television when he returned to the dugout after hitting a home run. It was captured that he put his hands at the corners of his eyes to form a phoenix eye shape, and his mouth shape seemed to say "chinito" (little Chinese), which has a racist connotation. Gurriel's behavior was seen as a discriminatory move against Yu Darvish, a Japanese-American pitcher of the Dodgers, and triggered a backlash from the Asian community in Los Angeles.

Although Major League Baseball clearly announced on October 28 that Gurriel was suspended for five games from now on and will last until the next season. Gurriel also quickly issued a public apology, saying that he understood that some people were offended by the word "chinito" and he was deeply sorry for this. He explained that in Cuba they do not call Japanese "Japanese", but Cubans call all Asians "chinito".

Gurriel not only apologized, but because of his childish behavior, his annual salary of 12 million yuan was damaged by the suspension. His $322,581 salary due to his inability to play will be donated to charity through Major League Baseball.

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