Royals catcher Salvador Perez deserves some free seafood, too, for his half-hearted attempt to stop a limping Machado from reaching the mound. Ventura, who was ejected for the third time in his career, has a history of losing his cool .

“I don’t regret anything, he said. “It’s part of the game. Reactions fly and when somebody’s throwing 99 at you, it’s something that’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt. You could ruin somebody’s career, so you don’t think in that situation, you just react to it, and it happened. Whatever happened, happened and we just have to move forward and thank God the team came out there and kept battling, kept swinging the bats like they did, and that’s all that matters that we came out with a W.”