{"id":121793,"date":"2025-09-05T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121793\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:04:08","slug":"cardinals-willson-contreras-begins-serving-4-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121793\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals’ Willson Contreras begins serving 4-game suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS — Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras<\/a> started serving a four-game suspension Friday in the opener of St. Louis’ series against the San Francisco Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contreras was originally given a six-game suspension<\/a> after an Aug. 25 tirade in which he was ejected for arguing balls and strikes with umpire Derek Thomas. After his ejection, Contreras threw a bat that hit Cardinals hitting coach Brant Brown and tossed a tub of candy onto the field.<\/p>\n

St. Louis also activated backup catcher Yohel Pozo from the seven-day concussion list prior to the game.<\/p>\n

Manager Oliver Marmol said Nolan Gorman<\/a> would start at first base while Contreras is out.<\/p>\n

Eight-time All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado<\/a>, who remains on the injured list with a right shoulder strain, rejoined the team after a stint in Florida. Marmol said Arenado could begin a rehab assignment with Double-A Springfield on Tuesday if the weekend goes well.<\/p>\n

He added that outfielder Alec Burleson<\/a>, on the injured list since Aug. 29 with right wrist inflammation, is on track to be activated Monday without a rehab assignment.<\/p>\n

All-Star second baseman Brandon Donovan (left groin strain) has been taking part in batting practice, but Marmol had no clear timeline for his return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS — Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras started serving a four-game suspension Friday in the opener of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-121793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}