{"id":75657,"date":"2026-07-02T19:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/nationals-cavalli-suspended-seven-games-after-sit-down-boy-comment-sparks-brawl\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:55:06","slug":"nationals-cavalli-suspended-seven-games-after-sit-down-boy-comment-sparks-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/nationals-cavalli-suspended-seven-games-after-sit-down-boy-comment-sparks-brawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals\u2019 Cavalli suspended seven games after \u2018Sit down, boy\u2019 comment sparks brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Red Sox\u2019s Contreras also given seven-game ban<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Pitcher apologized for remark, racial overtones<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Bench-clearing fracas resulted in four ejections<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Major League Baseball suspended Washington Nationals starting pitcher Cade Cavalli and Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras seven games each on Thursday for their \u2060roles in a benches-clearing incident on Tuesday in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>MLB also suspended Nationals right-hander Miles Mikolas for five games and Red Sox outfielder Nate Eaton for three for \u2060their actions during the \u2060incident at Fenway Park. The \u200bfour players each were fined an undisclosed amount as part of the discipline.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/02\/cade-cavalli-willson-contreras-suspension-brawl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Sox\u2019s Contreras also given seven-game ban Pitcher apologized for remark, racial overtones Bench-clearing fracas resulted in four ejections Major League Baseball suspended Washington Nationals starting pitcher Cade Cavalli and Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras seven games each on Thursday for their \u2060roles in a benches-clearing incident on Tuesday in Boston. MLB also &#8230; <a title=\"Nationals\u2019 Cavalli suspended seven games after \u2018Sit down, boy\u2019 comment sparks brawl\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/nationals-cavalli-suspended-seven-games-after-sit-down-boy-comment-sparks-brawl\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nationals\u2019 Cavalli suspended seven games after \u2018Sit down, boy\u2019 comment sparks brawl\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}