ATLANTA -- Considering the way the Red Sox have been playing, perhaps it was only a matter of time before manager John Farrell boiled over. When first-base umpire Larry Vanover ruled that the Braves' Pedro Ciriaco held up on a check-swing in the bottom of the seventh inning, Farrell was irate and got ejected.
As Farrell complained from the dugout, home-plate umpire Brian Knight tossed him. The manager then came out and had a heated argument with Vanover.