‘Sit down, girl!’: White Sox fan lets Willson Contreras hear it after bench clearing incident

Credit: NESN- on July 8, 2026 Things got testy recently between the Washington Nationals and Boston Red Sox. Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli told Red Sox star Willson Contreras, “Sit down, boy!” after striking him out. Cavalli took ownership of his mistake afterward, noting the “loaded” history surrounding the word, which Southerners once used to demean Black Americans. Cavalli told reporters that he “learned a lot” about that history between the world and people of color and assured that it would “never happen again.” “I’m extremely torn up about the way that things were perceived,” Cavalli said. “Obviously, there was no…