No one was hurt. The Orioles were incensed.

“First and foremost, that is about as pathetic as it gets between the lines,” said Orioles center fielder Adam Jones, who was the first on the scene. “You don’t do that. I don’t care how passionate you are, how you think you’re passionate. You don’t do that. Yell, cuss, scream, call us [anything]. We suck. We know. We’re sacks of [dung]. We know. We’re horrible. We get it. We’re the opponent. We completely understand that.

“But to throw something at a player, that’s just as pathetic as it gets.”

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The incident comes one year after the Blue Jays’ tense division series with the Rangers that culminated in a decisive fifth game at Rogers Centre. In that game, when umpires overturned a call in Texas’s favor, a volatile crowd threw bottles and cans on the field. It was a scary situation.

Now, the Blue Jays will host that same opponent here in Sunday’s Game 3.

“It’s unfortunate that, for a lot of different reasons, people lose some good decision-making when they get over-emotional,” Baltimore Manager Buck Showalter said. “Thank goodness the ballplayers don’t do that as often.”

Except when it comes to the Rangers and the Blue Jays, they do. Last October, Jose Bautista won that fifth game with a tie-breaking, three-run homer – and was chastised by Rangers reliever Sam Dyson for his epic bat flip. That led to a skirmish between the teams, but it simmered into this season, when Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor leveled Bautista with a right cross during a game in Texas.

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So the intensity is certain to be high Sunday at Rogers Center. The Orioles don’t care much about that. They did care about Kim’s safety Tuesday.

“It’s a shame that some idiot would decide to do that,” catcher Matt Wieters said. “There’s no point in having a guy like that in the stands. It’s something to where I hope some sort of charges are pressed against that guy because that was close to doing some damage.”

After Kim walked away having caught the fly ball off the bat of Melvin Upton Jr. for the final out of the seventh, Jones turned toward the crowd and yelled.

“He’s not looking,” Jones said. “You could hit him in the back of the head. You never know what could happen. That’s a full beer that’s being thrown. That’s just not part of the sport.”

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There were reports on social media that Jones and Kim were subjected to racial slurs and taunts during Tuesday’s game.

“I’ve heard that so much by playing baseball, I don’t even care,” Jones said. “Call me what you want. Call me what you want. I don’t care.”

Asked whether he heard racial slurs on Tuesday specifically, Jones said: “You hear everything.”