BOSTON -- Major League Baseball wasted no time issuing discipline from Wednesday's Red Sox-Yankees melee, handing a six-game suspension to Boston righty Joe Kelly and a five-game suspension to New York infielder Tyler Austin.
Both players have appealed their suspensions, meaning they are available for Thursday's rubber match of the three-game rivalry series at Fenway Park.
Kelly drilled Austin in the back in the top of the seventh inning of Wednesday's eventual 10-7 Yankees win. It seemed to be retaliation for Austin sliding in with his right foot high and spiking shortstop Brock Holt in the third inning.