Major League Baseball suspended St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras for six games Tuesday after he threw his bat while arguing with umpires on Monday night.

Contreras' bat hit his own coach, and the player also spiked his batting helmet and chucked a bucket of bubble gum from the dugout onto the field.

In the seventh inning of Cardinals' 7-6 home win over Pittsburgh, Contreras went down on three pitches and was caught looking on strike three, a sinker at the bottom of the zone.

Contreras was ejected for arguing the call, and his outburst continued as Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol and hitting coach Brant Brown held him back from the umpire. After tossing his helmet onto the ground, Contreras tossed his bat behind him, hitting Brown in the arm. He finished it off with th

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