{"id":28260,"date":"2025-08-26T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/contreras-ejected-and-controversial-batter-hits-coach-in-cardinals-victory\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:00:15","slug":"contreras-ejected-and-controversial-batter-hits-coach-in-cardinals-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/contreras-ejected-and-controversial-batter-hits-coach-in-cardinals-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Contreras, ejected and controversial: Batter hits coach in Cardinals&#8217; victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Controversy in the Game: Contreras Stars in Incidents in the Cardinals&#8217; Victory<\/h2>\n\nIn a drama-filled encounter, first baseman Willson Contreras was ejected and starred in several incidents during the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; 7-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Monday night&#8217;s game was marked by tension and questionable umpiring decisions.\n\nCardinals manager Oliver Marmol was also ejected after a heated argument with the umpires following a called strike in the seventh inning.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t understand why I was ejected. I didn&#8217;t argue any pitches. I just said: &#8216;Sing the pitches from both sides because they&#8217;re failing us.&#8217; Then, I turned around. The next thing I hear is that I&#8217;m ejected. There&#8217;s no reason for that. Apparently, he heard something I said. I didn&#8217;t say that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<cite>Willson Contreras<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMarmol backed his player, adding that they would analyze the situation to clarify what happened.\n\nTeam manager Jordan Baker reported that Contreras and Marmol were ejected for allegedly using vulgar language towards the head referee, Derek Thomas.\n\nContreras, after being struck out, began walking towards the dugout. Umpire Thomas ejected him and Marmol tried to restrain Contreras, who seemed to be heading towards the umpire. Baker indicated that there was contact.\n\nAfter the ejection, Contreras threw his bat towards first base umpire Stu Scheurwater, but accidentally hit Cardinals batting coach Brant Brown in the arm.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I apologized to him. I wasn&#8217;t looking back. I just threw my bat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<cite>Willson Contreras<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nContreras, who went 1-4 with two RBIs, also threw chewing gum onto the field upon reaching the dugout.\n\nThe Cardinals secured the victory thanks to a solo home run by Alec Burleson with two outs in the ninth inning.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy in the Game: Contreras Stars in Incidents in the Cardinals&#8217; Victory In a drama-filled encounter, first baseman Willson Contreras was ejected and starred in several incidents during the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; 7-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Monday night&#8217;s game was marked by tension and questionable umpiring decisions. Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[293,915,2226,2843],"class_list":{"0":"post-28260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-cardinals","9":"tag-ejection","10":"tag-umpires","11":"tag-willson-contreras"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}