Adam Jones said he was subjected to racial slurs and had a sack of peanuts tossed at him amid Monday night's amusement at Fenway Park.
A Baltimore Orioles outfielder said that he was the target of racial slurs from Boston Red Sox fans during a game at Fenway Park, Monday.
Adam Jones revealed to USA Today he was known as the N-word a few times and had a pack of peanuts tossed at him amid the diversion, adding up to what he said was one of the most noticeably bad encounters of his profession.
"A discourteous fan tossed a pack of peanuts at me," Jones told a USA Today columnist. "I was known as the N-word a modest bunch of times this evening. Much obliged. Entirely amazing."
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 tragic. I heard there was 59 or 60 discharges today around evening time in the ballpark. It is the thing that it is, correct. I simply go out and play baseball. It's tragic that individuals need to fall back on those kind of sobriquets to corrupt 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 investigating the occurrence.
"The Red Sox need to freely 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 resilience for such indefensible conduct, and our whole association and our fans are sickened by the direct of an insensible few."
Massachusetts senator Charlie Baker called the episode
"despicable."
Jones suggested there should be harsher punishments for offenders, calling getting kicked out of a ballpark a "slap on the wrist."
"What they need to do is that instead of kicking them out of the stadium, they need to fine them 10 grand, 20 grand, 30 grand," he said. "That's how you hurt somebody. 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
