Ryan Braun is the first big name to fall in Major League Baseball's latest drug investigation.

The 2011 National League MVP was suspended without pay for the rest of the season and the postseason on Monday, marking the start of sanctions involving players reportedly tied to a Florida clinic accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs.

The Milwaukee Brewers star accepted the 65-game ban, which is 15 games more than the one he avoided last year when an arbitrator overturned his positive test for elevated testosterone because the urine sample had been improperly handled.