Down 11-3, Orioles reliever Jason Garcia threw behind Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista in the bottom of the seventh of Tuesday’s game in Toronto. An angry Bautista then sent a 3-1 fastball over the fence in centerfield and into the empty Rogers Centre seats.
Bautista admired the homer and then barked at O’s second baseman Ryan Flaherty and centerfielder Adam Jones as he slowly ran around the bases.
It got a little heated North of the Border: http://t.co/zzwx4qGIx5 pic.twitter.com/JZaVG6F6Jo
— MLB (@MLB) April 22, 2015
Adam Jones is not happy. #IBackTheBirds pic.twitter.com/ZCUt5ft8mZ
— Orioles on MASN (@masnOrioles) April 22, 2015
You tell me what Bautista says here:
Jones wasn’t happy with Bautista’s actions and confronted him between innings.
#BirdFight pic.twitter.com/ScxrRR2Pc5
— Orioles on MASN (@masnOrioles) April 22, 2015
Bautista followed this exchange by throwing to first base on a ground ball that Delmon Young hit to him in right field.
Bautista is a jerk. ’nuff said.
Really.. How would you react if a team throws behind your back on purpose .. not once but twice ? Orioles pitchers are pretty stu*id. Haven’t they got the pattern yet ? pitch behind him -> he hit a HR.
Tom, while “stupid” may be a naughty word in Canada, we’re allowed to say it here in the good old USA. No need to censor stu*pid, a**hole.
So why didn’t you guys post the pitch or post Adam Jones’ F bombs? Because the GIFS are already all over the internet. This is terrible sports reporting.
Jose is freakin awesome. Keep throwing at him.. he hits it out next pitch, not just once but he’s done this 3 times now. Last laugh again and again, eat it Orioles Bautista owns you. Don’t make Jose mad!!!
william brach is a jerf. ’nuff said
william bratch iz a biznatch nuff sed muthurchodar
I like the dig at the “empty Rogers Centre seats”… You know what does that? A NBA Playoff game 1 block away…
So all the fans at the Raptors’ game the night before were, what, hungover, and that’s why they didn’t show up at Rogers Center last night?!?
It’s empty because it’s the Blue Jays. You can’t say someone owns a team when that team goes to the play offs and the other continually fades out after excessive hype.
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Why would they keep throwing at the dude 2 years after all of this started? Jose took exception to O’Day celebrating and skipping after he struck him out. Two years later he gets thrown at by O’Day and takes him out of the park no the next pitch and does a similar skip to first.
That should’ve been the end of it, and really that was fine……but he gets thrown behind him twice by the same team in a matter of two weeks (that might happen once all year), and both are in blow-outs late in the game… seriously weak by Showalter…… who then pinch hits for Adam Jones.
Either throw at the dude early to show your discontent, expect retaliation and let it go. But to save it to stir crap once the game is out of hand, and then not allow for them to come back at Adam Jones until the next day…..That isn’t old school, its just whack.
All it does it prolong the heat by having the Oriole’s weave in and out of it. WEAK
At least Jose is handling this with his bat…not too many players let themselves get thrown at 3/4 times by the same team without charging the mound. How can the O’s be upset at a little chit-chat in those circumstances?
RMO, Adam Jones has played EVERY inning or EVERY GAME this year, so what are you talking about? Pinch hit for Jones?!? No, he doesn’t “run and hide” like Joey Bats did last night.
Enjoy it now as your Jays will collapse like a cheap circus tent come June.
Throwing behind a guy for the second time in 2 weeks and getting mad at him for showboating doesn’t work. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.