There was a little action at the Red Sox-Tigers game on Saturday afternoon. Josh Beckett of the Red Sox struggled a little bit with his command of his pitches, hitting Gary Sheffield and Magglio Ordonez. Then Todd Jones being the veteran he is, threw a pitch behind J.D. Drew. This brought the benches to the field but thankfully no punches were thrown.
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I really don’t think he was trying to hit either Sheffield or Ordonez. Sheffield was not pleased when he got hit and was jawing at Beckett. I also think the breaking ball got away from him when he hit Ordonez’s helmet. Ordonez was ok and ended up with a headache from being hit.
Jones did the right thing in protecting his teammates. Although I think that reciprocation could have been done when the Tigers face the Sox during the regular season. It will be interesting to see if any bad blood boils over to the regular season series.
