Zack Greinke to have surgery on broken collarbone, out eight weeks

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke will have surgery Saturday to repair his broken left collarbone, and the team says he is expected to return in eight weeks.

Greinke was hurt Thursday night when the Padres' Carlos Quentin charged the mound after being hit on the arm by a pitch, touching off a bench-clearing melee in San Diego.

Quentin was suspended eight games by Major League Baseball. L.A. infielder Jerry Hairston Jr. -- who incited a second melee when he ran and gestured at someone in the Padres' dugout -- got one game.

No discipline was announced for Greinke or Matt Kemp, both ejected along with Quentin and Hairston.

In the sixth inning, Quentin was hit, then took a few steps onto the grass. When the 6-2, 195-pound Greinke appeared to say something, the 6-2, 240-pound Quentin -- an outside linebacker in high school -- tossed his bat aside and rushed the mound, slamming into the pitcher, who had lowered his shoulder.

"It's a man's game on the field," said Quentin, who later said that getting plunked by Greinke during the 2008 and 2009 seasons was justification to charge the mound.

If Greinke hadn't said anything, "There's a chance I don't" rush the mound, Quentin said. "Like I said, there is a history there, which is the reason I reacted like I did."

"People with good baseball IQs know that when you have a one-run lead in the sixth inning and it's a 3-2 count, Greinke's not going to hit you on purpose,'' Kemp said. "I think Carlos Quentin went to Stanford? . . . I heard there's smart people at Stanford. That wasn't too smart." -- AP