A Baltimore Orioles Player Says He Was Called The N-Word By Boston Red Sox Fans

Adam Jones said he was subjected to racial slurs and had a bag of peanuts thrown at him during Monday night's game at Fenway Park

A Baltimore Orioles outfielder said that he was the objective of racial slurs from Boston Red Sox fans amid an amusement at Fenway Park, Monday

Adam Jones disclosed to USA Today he was known as the N-word a few times and had a pack of peanuts tossed at him amid the amusement, adding up to what he said was one of the most noticeably awful encounters of his profession. 

"An ill bred fan tossed a pack of peanuts at me," Jones told a USA Today correspondent. "I was known as the N-word a modest bunch of times this evening. Much appreciated. Truly magnificent." 

Jones, who has played for the MLB for a long time, said this was not the first run through he's accomplished prejudice while playing in Boston's Fenway Park

"It's distinctive," he said. "Extremely sad. I heard there was 59 or 60 launches today around evening time in the ballpark. It is the thing that it is, correct. I simply go out and play baseball. It's awful that individuals need to fall back on those sort of appellations to debase another person. I'm attempting to bring home the bacon for myself and for my family."

Red Sox President Sam Kennedy discharged an announcement Tuesday apologizing to Jones and the Orioles, including that the association is evaluating the episode

"The Red Sox need to openly apologize to Adam Jones and the whole Orioles association for what happened at Fenway Park Monday night," Kennedy said in an announcement. "No player ought to have a question tossed at him on the playing field, nor be subjected to any sort of bigotry at Fenway Park. The Red Sox have zero resistance for such indefensible conduct, and our whole association and our fans are sickened by the direct of a uninformed few."

Massachusetts representative Charlie Baker called the occurrence 
"dishonorable."

Jones suggested there should be harsher punishments for offenders, calling getting kicked out of a ballpark a "slap on the wrist

"What they have to do is that as opposed to showing them out of the stadium, they have to fine them 10 thousand, 20 thousand, 30 thousand," he said. "That is the way you hurt some individual. You suspend them from the stadium, what does that mean? It's a slap on the wrist.

The Orioles beat the Red Sox Monday 5-2

The following night, Tuesday, as he went to bat, Jones received a standing ovation from both Boston fans and Red Sox players