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Washington Nationals All-Star CJ Abrams has been demoted aft reportedly spending an all-nighter astatine a casino earlier a time crippled connected Friday.
Abrams and the Nationals faced the Cubs starting astatine 1pm section time, a crippled which Chicago won 3-1.
And according to CHGO Sports, Abrams was astatine the Bally's casino successful Chicago until 8am successful the morning.
That determination seemingly made its mode backmost to the enactment and connected Saturday, the shortstop was sent down to the minors, arsenic ESPN first wrote.
Abrams unsurprisingly struggled connected the tract aft his precocious nighttime out, going 0-3 with a strikeout.
CJ Abrams has been demoted to the insignificant leagues aft pulling an all-nighter earlier a game
The shortstop deed 15 games implicit the archetypal fractional of the play to gain an All-Star nod
He'll present beryllium sent to West Palm Beach, Florida, which is wherever the team's insignificant league analyzable is located.
Nationals manager Dave Martinez did not get into the circumstantial reasoning for Abrams' demotion but acknowledged it had thing to bash with his play.
'I conscionable privation it to beryllium known it wasn't performance-based,' helium told reporters connected Saturday.
'It's an interior issue. I'm not going to springiness specifics.'
Abrams, 23, earned his archetypal All-Star Game enactment aft hitting 15 location runs successful the archetypal 89 games of the season.
However, he's deed conscionable 5 much since past and is batting lone .203 successful the 2nd fractional of the year.
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