Orioles starter Kevin Gausman was ejected in the second inning of Wednesday night’s game against the Boston Red Sox for hitting shortstop Xander Bogaerts in the back with a breaking ball.
Despite a conference call with the commissioner’s office Wednesday afternoon urging both teams to quell the dangerous aspects of their white-hot rivalry, neither team was given a pregame warning after a tense few games that included Boston left-hander Chris Sale throwing behind Orioles third baseman Manny Machado on Tuesday.
Machado has frequently been the target of Red Sox pitches since he injured their star second baseman, Dustin Pedroia, with a slide April 21.