BOSTON -- Long before he came to the Red Sox, David Wells cemented his living by being one of the best strike-throwers in his profession. Nothing agitates this control specialist of a left-hander than thinking he has thrown a strike and having the umpire think otherwise.

On Saturday night at Fenway Park, that very thing caused Wells to lose his cool, and get ejected from the game, which wound up being a 6-4 victory by the Red Sox over the Blue Jays.

Things boiled over in the top of the seventh, when Wells was sure he had thrown strike two to Shea Hillenbrand, only to have home plate umpire Larry Poncino call it a ball. The next pitch by Wells, a 2-1 offering, was sent in to center field by Hillenbrand. But before the hit had even reached its final destination, Wells waved his glove in disgust at Poncino.

Then he got back to the mound and geared up for a matchup with Aaron Hill when he heard the news shouted to him from second base umpire Chris Guccione.

Wells had been tossed from the game by an umpire he hadn't said a word to all night. Yes, Boomer was a little shocked, and it showed. He had to be restrained by a sea of teammates as he jawed at the umpiring crew. On his way back to the dugout, he lightly tossed the ball in the direction of Guccione, but it didn't land anywhere near the ump.

"Obviously, in disgust, I threw my glove out and waved at [Poncino], and then he comes out and he starts yelling. I didn't want no part of it," said Wells. "I didn't want to talk to him. I had my back turned to him and I said, 'Just get away, I don't want to talk to you.' And then, obviously, I was pretty [mad] and then the second base [umpire] runs me out and he had no part in that. He had no business throwing me out of the game. It wasn't his call. I think he overstepped his boundaries. It wasn't between me and the second base umpire. It was between me and home plate. I don't know where the [heck] he came from and what his reasoning was."

By that point, Wells had precisely zero interest in hearing why Guccione ejected him.

"Never said a word to him [before the ejection]. Not one word. I turn around and get back on the mound and he turns around and yells my name. I turn around and he tells me I'm out of the game," said Wells. "I didn't understand that. He didn't give me any reason. At that point, when he got to me, I didn't want to hear a reason. It wasn't his time and place to throw me out of a ballgame."

After viewing the incident on television, Wells realized that the reason Guccione ejected him was because he must have read the expletives that came out of his mouth.

"I didn't yell it out. I just said it to myself, I'm like, '[expletive, expletive]', but obviously he could read my lips. ... It's something I said, I didn't scream it out or yell it out," said Wells. "I just said it to myself, and obviously when I looked at the replay, he can read my lips and I guess that's what got me tossed out of the game. I didn't say a word to him until after I got thrown out of the game."

In his last start at Philadelphia, Wells thought he had struck Pat Burell out. But after it was called a ball, he surrendered a two-run homer to Burell on the next pitch.

"I threw a pitch that obviously I thought was a strike," said Wells. "I threw one early in the game that was every bit a strike and they ended up calling it a ball and it was a base hit and they scored their first run. Being around the plate is kind of tough for me these last few games.

"I throw strikes. I'm pretty much around the plate. Obviously, there's going to be a difference between what I think is a strike and what they think is a strike. It's frustrating, because my last game, I had Burrell struck out, I thought it was a strike. The next pitch he hits a home run. That's just the way it's been going for us. It's a carryover. To get thrown out by the second base umpire and it wasn't even his call, I don't get that."

Boomer was boiling. But for the second start in a row, the Red Sox had a win to show for his no-decision.

"I felt good," said Wells. "In the third or fourth inning where they put a three spot on me, I really didn't get hit hard," Wells said. "It was a lot of bloop hits. That's going to happen. After that, I felt good. I got in a groove. I felt I could have gone longer in the game."

Ultimately, that wish was taken out of his hands.