Grammar police, please arrest David Ross

As mentioned here, Red Sox teammates Ryan Dempster and Jonny Gomes playfully “repaired” the dugout phone David Ortiz demolished in a fit of rage in last night’s loss to the Orioles. The two hooked up aluminum cans on a piece of string, the way they used to do in the olden days.

The @MLB Twitter posted a picture of catcher David Ross attempting to use the contraption, capturing a pithy slogan for the Red Sox who had, until Friday night’s loss, been in first place since the end of May. Unfortunately, the shirt had an unfortunate grammatical error:

Can you hear me now? @RedSox ‘repair’ dugout phone after @davidortiz’s outburst: http://t.co/ZPIgy45tQx pic.twitter.com/omUxyWs2A6

— MLB (@MLB) July 28, 2013

Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna was arrested in Toronto back on May 8 on charges of assault against a woman and he has been on MLB’s administrative leave list ever since — that leave having been extended twice already.

Canadian authorities aren’t revealing any details about the case so as to protect the identity of the accuser and it’s unclear where MLB’s investigation into the matter stands at this point, but Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports opens his latest column with this note …

Toronto Blue Jays star closer Roberto Osuna’s domestic issue is said by people familiar with the case to be serious and involve allegations of a physical nature, which would draw a significant ban.

Heyman notes that Major League Baseball handed 15-game suspensions to Jeurys Familia and Steven Wright for domestic assault cases where there was no physical abuse — or none proven — and that Aroldis Chapman got 30 games after a police report revealed that he did get physical with the victim and also fired a gun.

It sounds like Osuna could be facing a suspension of at least 20-25 games, given the precedent. Again, though, we don’t have any actual details.

Tyler Clippard has been operating as Toronto’s primary ninth-inning man in Osuna’s absence.