ATLANTA — The Chicago Cubs placed Carlos Zambrano on the disqualified list Saturday and said the right-hander would receive no pay and have no part in team activities for 30 days.
Zambrano cleaned out his locker and left the Cubs after giving up five home runs and being ejected from Friday night’s 10-4 loss to the Braves at Turner Field. He didn’t return to the team Saturday.
Cubs general manager Jim Hendry said Saturday that Zambrano’s actions, including a brush-back pitch to the Braves’ Chipper Jones that led to the ejection, were “intolerable.”
“This was the most stringent penalty we could enforce without a release,” Hendry said.
Cubs pitcher Ryan Dempster had similarly strong words.
“He’s made his bed. Let him sleep in it,” Dempster said. “It’s not like it’s something new.”
Cubs manager Mike Quade said Friday night that Zambrano told team personnel he might retire.
Asked if he knew where Zambrano was Saturday, Hendry said: “I have no idea.”
Losing his cool
Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano’s blowup Friday was not his first major- league incident:
2010: Was placed on the restricted list for six weeks and sent to anger man- agement after a verbal altercation with then- teammate Derrek Lee.
2009: Was suspended following a tirade against an umpire in which he threw a baseball into the outfield and slammed his glove against the dugout fence.
