Former Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos has been sentenced to nine months in New York City jail after being found guilty of physical abuse towards his girlfriend at a hotel near the city’s Shea Stadium on 8 September 2008. Officials say that Burgos punched the woman, slapped her and threw her against a wall. Recently, Burgos was found not guilty of running over and killing two women with a Hummer in the Dominican Republic. He has also been indefinitely suspended from the Dominican baseball league.