Morning sports update: Orioles call pitcher’s ejection ‘a bunch of malarkey’
Kevin Gausman was thrown out of Wednesday night's game.
The trend of the Orioles and Red Sox playing eventful games continued Wednesday night.
Ejections left Orioles with ruffled feathers: “Just complete Bush League, to be honest, you know,” Gausman said. “To throw me out in that situation after what Sale did yesterday — throwing 98 behind a guy, on purpose, everybody knew it, and you’re going to throw me out for hitting a guy on a curveball 0-0 in the second inning? I mean, it’s pretty Bush League.” (Boston Globe)
Red Sox top Orioles 4-2; Gausman, Jones ejected: Hours after a conference call to tell the Red Sox and Orioles ‘‘Enough is enough,’’ Baltimore starter Kevin Gausman was ejected in the second inning for hitting a batter and Boston went on to win 4-2 Wednesday night. (Boston.com)
Red Sox permanently ban fan for racial slur at another fan: The Boston Red Sox on Wednesday permanently banned from Fenway Park a man they said used a racial slur toward another fan, a separate confrontation from the insults directed at Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones a night earlier but one the team says it is taking just as seriously. (Boston.com)
Isaiah Thomas’s 53-point performance earns praise from his idol: Kobe Bryant: Isaiah Thomas’s historic Game 2 performance Tuesday received near unanimous acclaim — including from a longtime villain to Celtics fans, who also happens to also be Thomas’s all-time favorite basketball player. (Boston.com)
LeBron James, Cavs keep soaring, romp past Raptors in Game 2: James had another sensational performance Wednesday, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a resounding 125-103 victory over the Toronto Raptors to take a 2-0 series lead in this Eastern Conference semifinals matchup. (ESPN)
Tony Parker leaves Spurs’ win in fourth quarter with injured leg: Spurs coach Gregg Popovich succinctly summed up the little he knows at this point about the severity of what the team called a left leg injury suffered Wednesday by point guard Tony Parker in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals. “It’s not good,” Popovich said. (ESPN)
Adrian Wojnarowski Finally Won His War Against ESPN: The question, then, is this: Did Wojnarowski explicitly tell ESPN to clear out employees to make room for his arrival, or did ESPN simply do it for him? (Deadspin)
Who’s a threat to the Patriots in the AFC? Good question: It will be a major upset if the Patriots don’t make it to a seventh straight AFC Championship game, and they will be heavy favorites to repeat as Super Bowl champions. (Boston Globe)
