I completely blame the Sox for all of this and agree with everything Machado is saying.
Machado seems like a guy that's highly respected by his peers - including Pedroia himself - and from the moment he slid into Pedroia you could see he genuinely felt horrible about it. It wasn't a dirty play; bloodthirsty Sox fans watching their division lead slide overreacted and immediately accused him of intentionally injuring Pedroia (again, something PEDROIA doesn't even seem to think was the case).
Thus, to appease those whiny fans, the Red Sox opted to puff out their chest and go for retaliation. Not only did they miss, but they came out looking *awful* because they missed inches from the guy's head.
The O's get understandably upset because Machado was targeted by a guy without the control to get the job done right. Honestly, if Machado had been hit in the ass the first time, this all probably ends there.
With that said, Machado never meant to hurt Pedroia in the first place. It was an freakin' accident. Guys get hurt playing sports on the professional level all the time. So the O's, understandably pissed that Machado was nearly killed, come out and hit Mookie nowhere next to his head because their pitchers seem much more capable of getting the job done "right."
So the Sox get pissed and throw at Machado AGAIN. And they miss AGAIN. If they were pissed about Mookie, don't throw at the guy who you almost killed a week prior...go after someone else. And actually HIT the guy in the ass. But again, the Sox are trying too hard to be macho, Sale gets too amped up, and he throws zillion-mile-an-hour fastball behind Machado.
Through all of this the Sox keep falling flat on their faces and making themselves look worse and worse - a day after racial tensions spark at Fenway and make national news. You don't think a black player having peanuts and N-bombs thrown at him was sufficient "payback?" That's where all of this needed to end.
This tells me that Farrell is out of touch and a bit of a dope. I'm embarrassed to be rooting for the Sox through all of this because they're looking like a bunch of paranoid assholes that can't even get out of their own way. They're also lacking any self-awareness, as an organization and fan base, after throwing behind a guy's head and treating a player as something than less than human because of his skin color. Again, the Jones stuff should have been the end of all of this.
I 100% back the O's here. Sox need to fucking cool it.