{"id":118232,"date":"2025-09-04T02:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118232\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:31:10","slug":"giants-chapman-suspended-for-pushing-rockies-freeland-after-benches-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118232\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants’ Chapman suspended for pushing Rockies’ Freeland after benches cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER \u2014 San Francisco third baseman Matt Chapman<\/a> is appealing a one-game suspension handed down Wednesday by Major League Baseball, along with an undisclosed fine, after he made contact with Colorado pitcher Kyle Freeland in a game a night earlier.<\/p>\n

Chapman, Freeland and Giants shortstop Willy Adames\u00a0all were ejected following the first-inning fracas\u00a0during San Francisco’s 7-4 win at Coors Field.<\/p>\n

In the second inning Wednesday, Chapman homered off Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez to put the Giants ahead 1-0.<\/p>\n

Freeland, Adames and Rafael Devers also were fined for their involvement in what became a benches-clearing incident that started after Devers hit a towering two-run homer in the first inning and admired it before beginning his slow trot.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, we didn\u2019t feel like we started it. It is what it is, deal with it going forward. We\u2019ll see what happens in the appeal. The other ones were fines,” Giants manager Bob Melvin said. “You knew something was going to happen. We were hoping there weren\u2019t suspensions. Ended up being one, and it\u2019s on appeal, so see where that goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devers crushed a sweeper over the right field wall and then Freeland took exception with Devers\u2019 celebration, prompting both players to shout at each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe watched it for a while, longer than than Kyle liked. Kyle took offence to it and felt disrespected. I back him 100% on that,” Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer said Wednesday. “He didn\u2019t like it. Had to say a few words to him, went after him a little bit, benches cleared. Sometimes that stuff happens in baseball. … In today\u2019s game, a lot of people think let the kids play. But that kind of goes out the window when you have a competitor who takes offense to something happening, especially in his own ballpark. I back him. Hopefully it\u2019s over with, but it\u2019s a moment in time that I\u2019m glad it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several players charged toward the infield, and MLB said Chapman was disciplined for \u201cpushing\u201d Freeland. Adames also was in the middle of the scrum.<\/p>\n

Chapman’s suspension had been set to be served Wednesday night as the series resumes, but will wait until the appeal process is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 San Francisco third baseman Matt Chapman is appealing a one-game suspension handed down Wednesday by Major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-118232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}