Dodger Reliever Belisario Arrested For DUI
Three bad decisions lead to this strikeout by the Dodger pitcher.
By KURT HELIN
Updated 1:15 AM PST, Sun, Jun 28, 2009
It’s a sign of bad judgment to drink and drive in the first place. It’s another sign of impaired judgment to drink and drive then do something else illegal so the police have another reason to pull you over. It’s another sign of bad judgment to call it “normal.”
That would be the three strikes Dodger relief pitcher Ronald Belisario pulled off. He arrested for a DUI near Old Towne Pasadena at 2:27 a.m. Saturday morning (Friday night). He had pitched one inning at the end of the Dodgers 8-2 win over Seattle.
He was pulled over when police saw him talking with his cell phone pressed to his ear. Apparently the $400,000 he was being paid this year was not enough to afford a Bluetooth earpiece. When they started speaking to him they grew suspicious of his alcohol
What did he have to say about the incident when he came to Dodger Stadium Saturday?
"I was driving to my apartment, talking on the telephone and they stopped me," Belisario said in Spanish. "Then they gave me the alcohol test and it was normal. They gave me a paper, said everything was normal. . . . Everything's fine."
Normal and fine must mean something different in Spanish than I was taught.
Copyright NBC Local Media
First Published: Jun 28, 2009 1:00 AM PST
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