{"id":96907,"date":"2025-08-26T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96907\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:26:09","slug":"cardinals-willson-contreras-hits-own-coach-with-bat-toss-in-insane-ejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96907\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Willson Contreras hits own coach with bat toss in insane ejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willson Contreras had an epic meltdown when he was tossed from the series opener between the Cardinals and Pirates, having to be held back by coaches and inadvertently hitting one with his bat as he crashed out over a called third strike in the bottom of the seventh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis led Pittsburgh, 6-5, when Contreras was rung up by home plate ump Derek Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>As Contreras was walking away, he apparently looked back and said something in the direction of the umpire, which led to the ejection and the ensuing chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Cardinals designated hitter Willson Contreras (40) is held back by manager Oliver Marmol (37) after he was ejected by umpire Derek Thomas (53) during the seventh inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Busch Stadium.  Jeff Curry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Willson Contreras was so mad at this umpire that he threw a bat that hit his own coach and then launched a bunch of Hi-Chew onto the field <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fslJY71FS6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fslJY71FS6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JomboyMedia\/status\/1960163713337504012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contreras spun around and charged back at Thomas as Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol attempted to stop him, but the heated ballplayer had to be pulled away by his manager and another coach as he slammed his helmet to the ground and yelled at the umpire.<\/p>\n<p>Bench coach Daniel Descalso attempted to move him toward the Cardinals\u2019 dugout, but not before turning and launching the bat he was holding in his hand in the direction of an umpire, however, he struck hitting coach Brant Brown.<\/p>\n<p>While things started to calm down, a bucket of bubble gum was thrown onto the field, with pieces scattering around the first baseline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Cardinals\u2019 Willson Contreras, left, throws his bat while being held back by bench coach Daniel Descalso as umpire crew chief Jordan Baker, right, and Cardinals hitting coach Brant Brown watch after being ejected by home plate umpire Derek Thomas. AP<\/p>\n<p>Marmol ended up also being ejected from the game during the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crew chief Jordan Baker <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jmjones\/status\/1960178104724332780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat <\/a>that Contreras and Marmol were tossed for \u201cvulgar\u201d language \u2014 though he wasn\u2019t close enough to hear too much of the exchange, having been positioned at second base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baker also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jmjones\/status\/1960178123942527466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told Jones<\/a> that Contreras did make contact with an umpire, but couldn\u2019t speak to his intent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals designated hitter Willson Contreras (40) yells from the dugout after he was ejected by umpire Derek Thomas (not pictured) during the seventh inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Jeff Curry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>A member of the St. Louis Cardinals picks up Hi-Chews after designated hitter Willson Contreras (40) threw them on the field when he was ejected by umpire Derek Thomas (not pictured) during the seventh inning. Jeff Curry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals held on to win the game and kick off a four-game set with the Pirates on a positive note.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis is currently 5 \u00bd games back of a wild card spot in the National League.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willson Contreras had an epic meltdown when he was tossed from the series opener between the Cardinals and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,5160,85,2366,71181],"class_list":["post-96907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-willson-contreras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96907","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=96907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}