The Yankees’ weekend in Boston kept getting worse, and Jazz Chisholm Jr. landed right in the middle of the latest mess.
With two outs and nobody on in the sixth inning, Chisholm took a big cut on a 2-2 pitch and was called out on a check swing by home plate umpire Adam Hamari. Hamari did not check with the first-base umpire, which is usually how judgment calls like that get handled. Instead, he made the ruling himself and stood his ground.
That set Chisholm off. He kept arguing, and when the game cut to commercial on NBC, it looked like the situation was headed toward an ejection for Aaron Boone.
When the broadcast came back, though, Chisholm was the one gone. He was eventually tossed by the first-base ump after spiking his helmet.
The timing made the whole thing even uglier for New York, which was already fighting to avoid another no-hit embarrassment against the Red Sox. The Yankees were in the middle of their third straight lengthy no-hit bid at Boston’s hands, and their offense had again disappeared almost completely.
Chisholm had been moved into the leadoff spot in a revamped Yankees lineup, but the change did nothing to spark the club. The source of the frustration was obvious enough: this team has been offensively barren, and it had once again put itself in a hole it could not afford.
The Yankees also entered the day with little room to complain about how the weekend had gone their way. They had not put themselves in position to get any breaks from the umpiring crew, and they were already trying to survive the final innings of a miserable stretch. Chisholm’s latest lapse only made the situation look worse.
Just a few games earlier, the Yankees had rallied around Chisholm after his controversial lollipop moment. This time, there was no feel-good finish. The team that was trying to stop a spiral instead got another reminder of how quickly things can unravel.
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