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.
