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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The benches cleared in a Cardinals-Padres game for the second straight night Saturday as St. Louis’ Willson Contreras and San Diego’s Manny Machado each got hit twice by pitches. The bench-clearing incident came in the ninth inning of the Padres’ 3-1 victory as Machado complained after he was hit by a pitch from Andre Granillo. Cardinals …

Ultimately, nothing came of the incident — aside from warnings for both sides and, eventually, the first run of the game. Leading off the bottom of the second, Pivetta came inside with a 93.7 mph fastball. It caught Contreras in the elbow guard, the National League-leading 15th time this season Contreras has been hit by a pitch. As Contreras tossed …