FORT MYERS -- While Steven Wright’s domestic violence case was retired for a year in court, it still lingers in a review process by Major League Baseball, restricting Wright from saying too much about what actually happened.
But the Red Sox knuckleballer tried to defend himself as best he could on Wednesday, stressing that he was never violent with his wife, Shannon, during an incident at his Tennessee home that ended with his arrest on Dec. 8.
“It wasn’t that bad, especially on a personal level, especially because I never touched her,” Wright said. “That’s probably the hardest thing, for me to sit there and see people talk about me being a wife-beater and all that stuff and I didn’t even make physical contact.