{"id":741831,"date":"2026-07-03T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/741831\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T06:30:21","slug":"red-sox-willson-contreras-among-4-players-suspended-for-role-in-brawl-saratogian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/741831\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox\u2019 Willson Contreras among 4 players suspended for role in brawl \u2013 Saratogian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willson Contreras will be suspended seven games for his role in Tuesday\u2019s benches- and bullpens-clearing incident between the Boston Red Sox and Washington Nationals at Fenway Park, Major League Baseball announced Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran first baseman is one of four players to be penalized.<\/p>\n<p>Nationals starting pitcher Cade Cavalli, who sparked the melee with taunts of \u201cSit down, boy\u201d to Contreras after striking him out in the bottom of the fourth, also received a seven-game suspension \u201cfor his actions initiating and during the benches-clearing incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nationals pitcher Miles Mikolas received a five-game suspension, while\u00a0Red Sox outfielder Nate Eaten received a three-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p>All four players were fined an undisclosed amount as well.<\/p>\n<p>Unless appealed, the suspensions will begin Friday. The Red Sox are in Anaheim for a three-game set with the Angels. After an off-day Monday, they head to Chicago for a trio with the White Sox, followed by three against the Mets in New York next weekend, the final games before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willson Contreras will be suspended seven games for his role in Tuesday\u2019s benches- and bullpens-clearing incident between the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,4,415,185,414,71,4222],"class_list":["post-741831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-nationals","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-sports","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-washingtonnationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116854641392568048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741831","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=741831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}