BOSTON (AP) – Former teammates Brendan Donnelly and Jose Guillen revived their three-year old feud Tuesday and both were ejected from Boston’s 14-3 win over Seattle.

Players streamed from the dugouts and bullpens when the two players approached each other after the Red Sox reliever struck out Guillen on three pitches in the eighth inning. They exchanged words, but no punches were thrown. Donnelly and Guillen were kept apart, but Guillen was ejected.

Donnelly was ejected after hitting the Mariners’ next batter, catcher Kenji Johjima, on a 1-1 pitch.

The right-hander said it was an accident, but Guillen said, “This goes way back since I was with the Angels. (I) caught him cheating once and, unfortunately, he keeps running his mouth like he’s going to hit me. You’ve got to be man enough to hit me and not hit a catcher.”

Guillen didn’t say when Donnelly threatened to hit him.

“It wasn’t a planned thing,” Donnelly said of the confrontation. “Our issues are well documented.”

The game was the first in which Donnelly’s team faced Guillen’s since June 14, 2005, when Donnelly was with the Los Angeles Angels and Guillen was with Washington.

Nationals manager Frank Robinson went on the field before Donnelly’s first pitch and asked umpires to check his glove. They found pine tar on it, and the reliever was ejected. Angels manager Mike Scioscia then argued with Robinson. Guillen followed with a two-run homer in a four-run eighth in the Nationals’ 6-3 win.

Donnelly said Guillen had told Robinson to check the glove. “He initially denied it, but Frank Robinson eventually admitted it was him,” Donnelly said.

Guillen and Donnelly were teammates with the Angels in 2004, when Guillen was suspended by Scioscia for the last eight regular-season games and the playoffs after throwing a tantrum, a move supported by Donnelly and other Angels players. Guillen was traded that November to Washington.

“I think about Guillen from time to time,” Donnelly said. “I’m not going to take a personal grudge and make it a team grudge.”

After swinging at a third strike Tuesday, Guillen walked toward his dugout. He gestured toward Donnelly twice with the bat in his right hand, then removed his helmet as the players jawed at each other.

“When I was just walking to the dugout, I just looked around there. I just saw him staring at me and saying something. I just don’t like that,” Guillen said. “I don’t know what he was saying.”

After striking out, Guillen “turned around, said something to me and pointed his bat at me,” Donnelly said. “He said something about fighting. I don’t recall gesturing to him.”

The teams have two more games left in the current series.

“It’s fine,” Guillen said. “I’m pretty sure we’ll see him again.”

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