TORONTO - Major League Baseball has suspended Toronto pitcher Aaron Sanchez for three-games and manager John Gibbons for one game Tuesday as part of the fallout of a testy game between the Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals. S

MLB also fined Sanchez an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing a pitch at Alcides Escobar with warnings in place during the top of the eighth inning of Toronto's 7-6 win Sunday. Sanchez denied intentionally hitting Escobar, arguing his pitch just got away.

Gibbons was suspended for returning to the field following an ejection. He was set to miss Tuesday night's home game against Minnesota. Sanchez will appeal his suspension.

An already heated game spun out of control when the benches cleared after Escobar was hit by Sanchez. Among those running onto the Rogers Centre field was Gibbons, who had already been ejected in the seventh inning.

Sanchez was immediately ejected from the game by umpire Jim Wolf, who had put a warning in place in the first inning when Royals starter Edison Volquez hit Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson.

"If I wanted to send a message I would've sent a message to their big guys," Sanchez said after the game. "I think it was kind of crap, but we'll move on. We got a 'W.'"

The Blue Jays were critical of Wolf's handling of the game. After issuing the warning in the first, the Jays were upset when reliever Ryan Madson wasn't tossed for hitting shortstop Troy Tulowitzki in the forearm in the seventh inning.

Donaldson lost his cool when he got buzzed in the next at-bat, which led to Gibbons getting ejected by Wolf.

"I have a lot of respect for him behind the plate; I don't think he made a lot of the right decisions today," Donaldson said of Wolf after the game. "That's what you end up getting out of it, games like that, you get bench-clearing, when it never even had to go that route."