NEW YORK -- It isn't very often you see a manager come storming out of the dugout for another argument minutes after he's already been ejected from a game. But Friday night presented uniquely emotional circumstances, and Red Sox manager John Farrell was trying to protect star slugger David Ortiz.
Because Farrell never actually vacated the dugout after his ejection, he could face a suspension from Major League Baseball.
But while doing so, he helped Ortiz avoid a suspension. Ortiz was steaming mad at home-plate umpire Ron Kulpa for making two called strikes he didn't agree with in a ninth-inning rally that fell short.