Willson Contreras has been suspended for six video games for his outburst on Monday evening after he was known as out on strikes and ejected from a sport in opposition to the Pirates.
Main League Baseball additionally fined him an undisclosed quantity for the incident.
Contreras’ suspension was set to start on Tuesday evening when the Cardinals hosted the Pirates for the second sport of a four-game set, however the Cardinals’ first baseman has appealed the choice and he received’t serve any of it till the appeals course of performs out.
Contreras was concerned in a wild scene on Monday evening when he erupted on the house plate umpire and needed to be restrained by supervisor Oli Marmol and different members of the Cardinals workers.
Contreras slammed his helmet to the bottom and whereas he was being led off the sphere by bench coach Daniel Descalso, the Playing cards’ participant swung round and threw his bat within the course of house plate and hit hitting coach Brant Brown.
He continued the scene by launching a bucket of gum out of the Cardinals’ dugout and onto the sphere.
Crew chief Jordan Baker had instructed a pool reporter after the sport that Contreras and Marmol, who was additionally ejected from the sport, had made “vulgar” feedback and mentioned Contreras had made contact with the house plate ump.
Contreras expressed regret for hitting Brown with the bat when he spoke with reporters after Monday’s sport.
“I apologized to [Brown],” Contreras mentioned, in accordance with The Athletic. “I wasn’t trying again, I simply threw the bat again. That was not on function.”
As for the allegations that he had mentioned one thing to the umpire, he didn’t agree with that.
“I circled, he threw me out, he had no cause for it. Apparently he heard one thing that I mentioned, however I didn’t say that,” he mentioned.
