Apopleptic over cheap shots on diamond

PERHAPS the eight-ejections Yankees-Tigers game Thursday cut into local sales of the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor freak show.

Although “apoplectic” means unrestrained anger, YES’s Ryan Ruocco described the Tigers’ Jose Iglesias as “apoplectic with excitement” after his seventh-inning, bases-loaded double.

Next, during a replay of the seventhinning brawl, Ruocco said we were watching Gary Sanchez as he “takes a swing at” Nicholas Castellanos. No, Sanchez didn’t just take a swing, he sucker-punched him in the head.

If Sanchez is suspended during a pennant race, it won’t be because he tried to disengage Castellanos from a Yankees teammate, but because he nailed an unsuspecting opponent with an uppercut, a cheap shot. From one sucker to hopeful others: The Mets have raised 2018 ticket prices and are demanding subscribers’ up-front money by Sept. 15. How to make friends and influence fools.

Hey, it’s never too early to try to wash some of that $110 million they’re paying Yoenis Cespedes despite previous years of ample evidence that he would be as reliably unreliable as a pack of damp matches.

And it seems that the Sgt. Schultz “We-see-nussink!” pandering to Ces- pedes’ obvious indifference finally has escaped SNY’s booth.

Tuesday, after Arizona’s Adam Rosales ran hard all the way, nearly reaching second before his home run cleared the fence, Gary Cohen and Ron Darling compared Rosales’ “home-run trot” — a sprint — to Cespedes’ takes-forever jogs.

They concluded that this is one reason why Rosales is a valued teammate. Imagine that.