The Red Sox and Orioles botch considered the tension a product of competition, but Manfred had a different idea.
In the aftermath of Orioles center fielder Adam Jones reporting that he was the target of a racial slur on Monday night at Fenway Park, Manfred said Major League Baseball is surveying its teams about how they handle such incidents, in order to come up with "more industrywide guidelines in this area".
Manfred said it was the first time he had personally gotten involved in such a situation, saying one of the pitches "was of grave concern to us".
Manfred says the goal is to make sure players feel comfortable in every ballpark.
Harbaugh, who has thrown his fair share of barbs at the New England Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick, compared the Orioles-Red Sox rivalry to the one that has formed between the Patriots and Ravens.
According to WEEI, Red Sox president Sam Kennedy said Wednesday he believed this was the first time a fan had been banned from Fenway for life. "As a matter of fact, it had persisted so long it was hard to trace back who had hit who when, whose turn it was".
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The club, he said, had committed to the Thursday date without confirming its plans with the school first. Coulter rejected the changes, and said she would speak on April 27, as originally planned.
On Monday, Baltimore's Dylan Bundy hit Boston right fielder Mookie Betts near the hip with a pitch.
"My son very sweetly said, 'I thought it was over with white people and black people being separate, '" Hennick said.
Either way, the Orioles and Red Sox should have gotten the league's message loud and clear. He said he planned to have communications with union head Tony Clark to see if the rules put in place to curb such confrontations need to be revisited.
"It has been a concern of ours, the issue of hit batsman, throwing at batters", Manfred said.
Hennick said he notified team security of the incident and the man was ejected from the game, noted Boston.com.
Chris Sale said he was "not losing any sleep" over what had happened.
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