{"id":293895,"date":"2025-09-05T08:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/293895\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:51:34","slug":"giants-matt-chapman-suspended-for-shoving-kyle-freeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/293895\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Matt Chapman suspended for shoving Kyle Freeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After just eight pitches on Tuesday night, the San Francisco Giants found themselves in quite a pickle against the Colorado Rockies. After Rafael Devers\u2019 admiration for a home run had prompted thin-skinned pitcher Kyle Freeland to throw a temper tantrum, the benches had cleared for both teams. And in the aftermath, the Giants lost the entire left side of their infield, as third baseman Matt Chapman and shortstop Willy Adames were both ejected for coming to Devers\u2019 defense (Freeland was Colorado\u2019s lone ejection).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants overcame that obstacle. Rafael Devers moved to third base for the first time since 2024, while Casey Schmitt, who was supposed to have the day off to recover from being hit on the funny bone with a fastball, was forced into action at second base. Devers played delightful defense, Schmitt homered, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccoveychronicles.com\/san-francisco-giants-scores-standings-nl-west\/100243\/giants-survive-bench-clearing-brawl-ejections-in-7-4-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Giants won 7-4<\/a>. Obstacle overcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But the obstacle is potentially growing. On Wednesday, the league announced further punishments for the skirmish. Adames, Devers, and Freeland were all hit with fines, but Chapman was given a one-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Because of baseball\u2019s rules, Chapman will get to stay in the lineup for Wednesday\u2019s game, where he\u2019ll play third and bat cleanup. He\u2019s appealing the suspension, and once that process is finalized, then he\u2019ll have to serve the suspension, assuming it\u2019s upheld.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chapman\u2019s suspension, which also came with an undisclosed fine, is officially for pushing Freeland. We\u2019ll soon find out if the league will reverse course after hearing Chapman\u2019s pleas, and looking back over the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After just eight pitches on Tuesday night, the San Francisco Giants found themselves in quite a pickle against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,169,1830,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-293895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-roster","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-giants","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","17":"tag-sf","18":"tag-sf-giants","19":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115150841535931184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293895","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=293895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}