Indians Byrd hit with 162 game drug suspension

(Reuters) - Cleveland Indians outfielder Marlon Byrd was suspended for 162 games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday after he tested positive for a banned substance a second time. The suspension, which will include the remainder of the current campaign and the start of next season, could mark the end of the 38-year-old's major league career which began in 2002 when he broke into the league with the Philadelphia Phillies. Byrd, who served a 50-game suspension in 2012 for using the banned substance Tamoxifen, tested positive for the growth hormone secretagogue Ipamorelin.

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