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Washington 8, Boston 1

Willson Contreras: 2AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI, 0BB, 1K, .280AVG, .903OPS

Willson got ejected from the game after throwing his helmet at the Nationals starting pitcher Cade Cavalli. I didn’t see the game, but the Red Sox fans on one of the message boards I follow claimed that after Cavalli was caught on a hot mic saying to Willson after striking him out, “Sit down, boy,” Willson threw his helmet and both benches emptied. Someone edited Cavalli’s Wikipedia page calling him a racist.

I mixed up the order of events. The benches emptied before Willson threw his helmet. Here’s a MLB.com article about all of it.

https://www.mlb.com/news/benches-clear ... g=19610006

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/74136 ... ons-brawl/

The aftermath: Contreras and Cavalli both suspended 7 games, both are appealing.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mlb- ... 10371.html

I knew Miles Mikolas got involved in the Red Sox-Nationals fracas but I didn’t know that he got a suspension too (5 days). Here’s a breakdown of the whole thing that shows what Mikolas did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redsox/commen ... wn_of_the/

(NSFW language)