{"id":667712,"date":"2026-04-07T05:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667712\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:05:16","slug":"red-soxs-contreras-left-fuming-after-latest-brewers-hbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667712\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox’s Contreras left fuming after latest Brewers HBP"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON — Red Sox<\/a> first baseman Willson Contreras<\/a> had a warning for the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> after he was hit on the hand by a pitch Monday night from right-hander Brandon Woodruff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“They always say, ‘I’m not trying to hit you,”’ Contreras said after the Brewers beat the scuffling Red Sox 8-6<\/a> at Fenway Park. “That gets old. So, next time they hit me again, I’m going to take one of them out. That’s a message.”<\/p>\n

Contreras has been hit by a pitch 131 times in his major league career, including 24 times by the Brewers — which is 10 more than he’s been plunked by any other team. He has a testy history with Woodruff, who has nailed Contreras six times.<\/p>\n

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After the latest one, Contreras yelled at Woodruff from first base. Then, on a force play, Contreras slid hard into second, banging into shortstop David Hamilton<\/a>‘s left knee with his cleats and tearing his pants.<\/p>\n

“I mean, we’ve been through that. It’s been like nine years for me. It seems like every year,” Woodruff said. “He’s trying to play a game, and he’s trying to get his side fired up, which is fine. Once I knew what was going on, I wasn’t going to let it affect me.”<\/p>\n

Before getting traded to the Red Sox in the offseason, Contreras spent his first 10 big league seasons in the NL Central where he played against Milwaukee a lot, first with the Chicago Cubs<\/a> and then the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I mean, we’ve seen that skit for the last 10 years,” Brewers slugger Christian Yelich<\/a> said. “It’s nothing new.”<\/p>\n

Contreras was hit Monday night on the left hand with a fastball that grazed his fingers. Brewers manager Pat Murphy challenged the call, which was upheld after a replay review.<\/p>\n

“I thought it wasn’t a hit by pitch,” Murphy said. “That’s why we challenged it. Those are really hard to get overturned.”<\/p>\n

Contreras’ younger brother, William<\/a>, was Milwaukee’s catcher Monday night.<\/p>\n

The Brewers hit Willson Contreras with a pitch for the 24th time in his 121 games against them. Monday night’s pitcher, Brandon Woodruff, now has hit him six times.\u00a0Maddie Malhotra\/Boston Red Sox\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Did he try to calm his older brother as he walked toward first with him?<\/p>\n

“I tried,” he said. “He plays like that.”<\/p>\n

Willson Contreras hit a solo homer in the ninth inning and reached base five times. He flung his bat not only after the homer, but his first-inning walk, too.<\/p>\n

From behind the plate, his younger brother challenged a 2-0 pitch to Willson Contreras that was called a ball. The call was confirmed by ABS.<\/p>\n

“I was going to check it whether it was my bother at the plate or not,” William Contreras said through an interpreter. “I saw it a little closer than it was.”<\/p>\n

The teams have two games left in their three-game series.<\/p>\n

Boston is 2-8 this year, tied for its worst 10-game start to a season in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON — Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras had a warning for the Milwaukee Brewers after he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-667712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-mlb-postseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116361686103927449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667712","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=667712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}