GIF: David Ortiz's home run celebration angers Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox are at the bottom of the American League East, but the way they play each other you would think they're competing for a pennant.
It's been playoff intensity all season long between the two clubs, and tempers flared up again Sunday at Tropicana Field.
Red Sox designater hitter David Ortiz's three-run homer in the first inning helped snap the Rays' nine-game winning streak and apparently hurt their feelings in the process.
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Ortiz' bat flip and subsequent trot irked Rays right-hander Chris Archer, who had some choice words for the slugger after the game.
#rays Archer said Ortiz "feels the show is all about him."
— RMooneyTBO (@RMooneyTBO) July 27, 2014
#rays Archer said Ortiz HR trot is "perfect example" of when Price said Ortiz feels he's "bigger than the game."
— RMooneyTBO (@RMooneyTBO) July 27, 2014
While Ortiz responded with authority to Rays lefty David Price following their dust up in May, the 25-year-old Archer apparently wasn't worth his time.
Big Papi just said Archer's not the 1 to be complaining about his bat flip in part because he 'has only 2 days in the league.'
— Joey Knight (@TBTimes_Bulls) July 27, 2014
Ortiz: "Players today are too sensitive. I'll leave it at that."
— Brian MacPherson (@brianmacp) July 27, 2014
The two clubs meet next in Tampa Bay for a four-game set beginning Aug. 29.