{"id":205745,"date":"2025-07-27T05:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/205745\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:32:10","slug":"benches-clear-in-padres-cardinals-game-as-machado-and-contreras-both-get-hit-twice-by-pitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/205745\/","title":{"rendered":"Benches clear in Padres-Cardinals game as Machado and Contreras both get hit twice by pitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 The benches cleared in a Cardinals-Padres game for the second straight night Saturday as St. Louis\u2019 Willson Contreras and San Diego\u2019s Manny Machado each got hit twice by pitches.<\/p>\n<p>The bench-clearing incident came in the ninth inning of the Padres\u2019 3-1 victory as Machado complained after he was hit by a pitch from Andre Granillo. Cardinals coach Jon Jay, who had been exchanging words with Machado, was ejected from the game.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras was hit by Robert Suarez\u2019 pitch in the ninth to bring the tying run to the plate. Suarez then got the final two outs end the game.<\/p>\n<p>The chippiness Saturday began in the fourth inning when a pitch from Randy Vasquez hit Contreras on his wrist. Vasquez appeared to apologize for it later on. Contreras already had been hit by a pitch from Nick Pivetta <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cardinals-padres-score-93addecc0d80529a153a484ffcf8aabe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a night earlier,<\/a> causing another benches-clearing incident.<\/p>\n<p>When the Padres batted in the fifth, Matthew Liberatore\u2019s first pitch of the inning hit Machado, causing the umpiring crew to issue warnings to both teams.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 The benches cleared in a Cardinals-Padres game for the second straight night Saturday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[22908,5,1932,2178,1726,5163,27191,1527,1453,3736,4,256,7094,45,43,7940,80,137,18,4339,4338,185,673,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-205745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-andre-granillo","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-ca-state-wire","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-il-state-wire","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-jon-jay","15":"tag-manny-machado","16":"tag-matthew-liberatore","17":"tag-missouri","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-mlb-baseball","20":"tag-mo-state-wire","21":"tag-nick-pivetta","22":"tag-padres","23":"tag-randy-vasquez","24":"tag-robert-suarez","25":"tag-san-diego","26":"tag-san-diego-padres","27":"tag-sandiego","28":"tag-sandiegopadres","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-st-louis","31":"tag-willson-contreras"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114923565455986560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}