BOSTON — Amid the fisticuffs and the pointed words and gestures between the Yankees and Red Sox, there was proof at Fenway Park on Wednesday night that chivalry is not yet dead.
The rogues may have won the day — and the tabloid back pages — when Tyler Austin slid late and wide, Joe Kelly fired high and tight, and a bench-emptying brawl commenced. But there was, lost amid the testiness, some gentlemanly behavior.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, Jackie Bradley Jr. of the Red Sox took off from first toward second on a ground ball, just as Austin had done three innings earlier.