Jayson Werth sentenced to 10 days in jail for speeding

Back when we learned in August that Jayson Werth had been busted for doing 105 mph in a 55-mph zone, there wasn’t a thought in my mind that he would end up getting jail time as punishment.

No way. Not a chance in heck. I figured at worst he’d pay a high three figure fine, get a slap on the wrist and move on.

Well looks like I was wrong. Oh so wrong.

Werth got a judge with a real attitude who sentenced him to 10 days in jail for the speeding offense after he was officially convicted of reckless driving.

“I-495 is not a racetrack,” Fairfax Cuonty judge Penney Azcarate said in imposing the sentence.

The judge also told Werth that that would be the sentence regardless of “what a person does for a living.”

Werth apparently tried to dispute the charge by saying he may have been going 90 but did not break 100. The state trooper who pulled him over said he followed Werth for about half a mile before getting the Washington Nationals outfielder to pull over. He added that Werth was doing 105 during that span.

Werth can appeal the decision and would likely only need to serve five of the 10 days he was sentenced.

It’s sort of wild that Werth might serve jail time for reckless driving while Adrian Peterson did not have to serve any jail time as part of his plea agreement for his child abuse charges.