By now, most everyone in Baltimore and Boston has come to their own conclusions about what took place April 21 and 23 during the dustup with Orioles third baseman Manny Machado and the Red Sox over a sloppy, but unintentional, slide that injured Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
Machado's slide may have started this latest example of bad blood in the American League East, but it was Red Sox skipper John Farrell who likely kept it alive long enough for one of his goons, reliever Matt Barnes, to try to and plant a red stitch in Machado's head.
Not concerned about it? You try standing in the batter's box for an at-bat in which the pitcher's sole purpose is to pay you back with a 95 mph fastball aimed at your head for some rightly or wrongly interpreted play that caused injury to one of your opposing team's players.
