Showalter takes shot at Red Sox flu epidemic

The Boston Red Sox aren't receiving much sympathy from Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter as multiple flu strains rip through their clubhouse.

Prior to the Orioles' two-game set with the Red Sox at Fenway Park, Showalter touched on the well-documented flu plaguing the Boston lineup over the last two weeks, and revealed that his own team is dealing with some illness as well.

"I don't know where we are with the flu today," Showalter said, according to Alex Speier of the Boston Globe. "Everybody in the league has had that issue. I've had it and it's a different strain, I'll tell you. It lingers for a long time. Some of them seem to be a little more noteworthy, it seems like, but our guys have fought their way through it.

"I know we've got a lot of guys that aren't 100 percent with it, but so do a lot of clubs. So nobody really wants to hear somebody else complain about it. Our guys have done a good job not broadcasting it to the world."

Mookie Betts, Hanley Ramirez, Mitch Moreland, Brock Holt, and Robbie Ross Jr. have all missed time due to the flu over the past week, and the Red Sox even went as far as fumigating the clubhouse in order to try to rid the place of any germs.

"No one outside of our walls cares about what we're going through and we don't care what others are going through," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "We've got to take care of ourselves and get guys back healthy."