Jake

I also was hoping (in vain apparently) that Dale Sveum would be held accountable for instigating both the first and second flare-ups

There are some things a player could say that I'd support punishing him over. Question is whether we'll get to find out and judge for ourselves whether what he said is acceptable

Renteria also suspended 1 game

Hopefully somebody leaks what was said to a beat writer so we can judge for ourselves

One thing I've been wondering about since the post-game: Did any reporter ask Tim if he said anything that earned an ejection? Usually you'd expect a player to deny or just not answer, but always a chance a guy admits to making a mistake and then you have no confusion.

I do think I've heard the umpires are mic'd up to document these things, although it is under a promise to not publicly release any recordings

Jeff Passan reports it's for language used. Keller suspended 5 games.

I would like baseball to have the same amount of celebrating as the NBA. Homers = dunks. The beauty of baseball is you have little pauses in play where what you do has no effect on the game. One of the most intense games I've seen in many years was the Puerto Rico vs Netherlands World Baseball Classic game, in which damn near every single hit and out prompted a major celebration and the fans were feeding on all of it. I don't find the "it's April"/"it's early in the game" stuff very compelling. We'd be furious if a player came out after the game and said not to get on them about their bad game or out or whatever because it's early and the games don't matter much. Most people go to one game a year, if that. Everything that happens in that game is super important to them. Players owe it to the fans to be all the way in the game and if that means the emotions come pouring out in some harmless way, great. As for this specific situation, there are a few things that really piss me off: Tim Anderson was thrown out of the game despite the fact it was clear he was just trying to go to 1B. Both the first "fight" and the second flare-up with Ricky happened because the Royals bench and coaching staff taking the field. If the MLB is in Tim's corner and wants to make him the poster child of the "Let the Kids Play" stuff, they need to punish Keller more than having him ejected late in his start. You need to regulate the celebrations, the retaliation, or both. MLB has made clear they're not going to regulate the celebrations.

Where's Madrigal?

Not a good AB for Tim

Nice AB for Eloy.

Per Statcast, with neutral luck Jose would be at roughly his career averages this season

The thing about Fulmer's cutter is it's his best pitch

Well Carson you'd be doing okay if not for hitting those guys. Let's...try to fix that for next time.

That wind looks nasty

Better pitch receiver on 2-2 and you might get a strike called

Yeah this is just Carson's miss right now. His last outing with us he was missing everything in that spot

Was hoping he meant to throw those early pitches up and in but it looks like he's just missing there like he was at the end of his last outing

They have gotten some soft ass hits today

FWIW Moncada has the hardest hit ball in this game, in fact hardest hit by a Sox player all year

BEEF

Nova definitely had a day that shows how much of a difference defense can make. Gave up a lot of 50/50 balls that mostly became hits.

Seems like we're playing bad

My problem with Welington is it seems like his effort is not very high right now

Nice job by Yolmer and Tim to recognize they had plenty of time to make the turn as long as they got the out at 2B