ANAHEIM, Calif. — Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras offered an emotional apology for his involvement in a pair of bench-clearing incidents against the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals this past week.
Contreras, who is appealing the seven-game suspension he received from Major League Baseball for his part in a heated dispute with Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli on Tuesday night, had just finished addressing reporters about his All-Star snub when he continued to speak through his interpreter in Spanish.
‘One thing I want to add, on the record,’ Contreras said before Saturday night’s game against the Los Angeles Angels, ‘is an apology for all of the events from last week, all of the things that occurred when the Nationals and Yankees [were at Fenway Park] are very hard. It was a very emotional time for me.
‘[People] won’t understand why I’m apologizing now, but I think it’s something that’s important for me to do, to apologize because I feel that it was an emotional time and those situations could have been avoided and controlled better.’
