actions after teams had been warned by umpires.

Hale will manage the Blue Jays while Gibbons serves his suspension. Assistant hitting coach Eric Owens coached first base Tuesday in Leiper’s place.

Gibbons, who was suspended one game last August for returning to the field during an altercation with Kansas City after being ejected earlier that game, said he was surprised by the length of his suspension this time around.

“That was a little excessive,” Gibbons said. “But what are you going to do? I’ve got enough issues to worry about.”

“That’s your team out there,” he said. “It makes sense to me that you should go out there and try to keep things under control, but that’s not the rules, so you’ve got to live with that.”

Tensions between the Blue Jays and Rangers stemmed from last season, when Bautista hit a tie-breaking 3-run homer in Game 5 of the AL division series, admired the shot and then dramatically flipped his bat — a breach of baseball etiquette that requires batters to immediately and undemonstratively start running the bases after hitting a homer.

In Sunday’s game, Bautista slid hard and late into the right leg of Odor and 8 feet past second base. Odor shoved Bautista with both hands, then threw a punch to the jaw that made Bautista’s head snap back, causing his sunglasses and helmet to fly off. Dugouts and bullpens emptied.

“It was pretty cowardly of them to wait until my last at-bat to do that in the whole series,” Bautista said after the game. “They could have come out and done it, if they wanted to send a message. Again, it shows a little bit more of their colors.”

• AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum in New York and AP freelance writer Rick Eymer in Oakland, California, contributed to this report.