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Emergency personnel and Marlins third baseman Casey McGehee tend to Stanton. (Getty Images)

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Even before the Marlins announced the injuries early Friday, manager Mike Redmond expected Miami’s MVP candidate to miss the final two-plus weeks of the season.

“It’s devastating for us. Devastating. For his season to end like that, I mean, that’s not good,” Redmond told reporters.

Fiers tweeted an apology to Stanton after the game. SN’s Ryan Fagan has the particulars.

After Stanton left the field, Fiers hit Reed Johnson, who was batting for Stanton, in the hand with the next pitch. That brought the Marlins out of their dugout. Miami third baseman Casey McGehee was ejected in the fracas. Fiers was not ejected.

Umpires ruled Stanton and Johnson both swung at the pitches that hit them and thus were strikes. In fact, Johnson completed an inning-ending strikeout (charged to Stanton) as he was being struck.

Those calls irritated Redmond enough to get him tossed.

Plate umpire Jeff Kellogg said he consulted with first base umpire D.J. Reyburn and determined that both Stanton and Johnson had swung.

“We’ve both looked at it and, yes, he did swing. They both did, at those pitches,” Kellogg said.

Redmond and Johnson said the benches cleared because of the reaction by Fiers after Johnson get hit. Fiers threw up his hands and looked into the Marlins’ dugout.

“He just knocked out our best player, hit him in the mouth and then you just hit another guy in the hand,” Redmond said. “What are we supposed to do? No doubt, we’re trying to win games, they’re trying to win games, but you just hit a guy in the mouth.”

The Marlins may have retaliated in the sixth inning when Anthony DeSclafani hit Carlos Gomez in the elbow with a pitch. DeSclafani and acting manager Rob Leary were ejected, because umpires had previously issued warnings. Gomez did not escalate the tension by charging the mound; instead, he walked to first base.

The result, though, was far from players’ minds.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.