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The Washington Nationals have actually fired a worker who apparently tossed two cups of hot coffee in the face of a female convenience-store worker in the Dominican Republic, the team told ESPN on Saturday.
In a Twitter video posted Friday night, Jazhiel Morel, who was the administrator of the Nationals academy in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, was shown filling up coffee cups before exchanging words with the cashier and then throwing the coffee on her.
Morel has accepted turn himself in to police Monday morning, his lawyer, Rafael Ariza, told Dominican journalist Edith Febles.
” The Washington Nationals learned of this dreadful occurrence earlier today and immediately ended the worker,” Mike Rizzo, the Nationals president of baseball operations and general manager, stated in a statement to ESPN on Saturday. “We do not tolerate this type of habits in our organization.”
The Nationals Dominican academy has been a source of significant skill for the defending World Series champions. Among those who have come from the Nationals Dominican pipeline: star outfielder Juan Soto, center fielder Victor Robles, reducer Wander Suero, infielder Wilmer Difo and novice infielder Luis Garcia.
Morel began with the Nationals in 2017 as a video intern at the academy, according to his LinkedIn page. He spent the next 2 years as an administrative assistant prior to ascending in November to an administrator, helping run daily operations. He previously played at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.
ESPNs Enrique Rojas contributed to this report.
