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Try it freeTAMPA — Jazz Chisholm Jr. got his point across Thursday night, but on Friday he paid for it — with his wallet and potentially a game.
Major League Baseball hit Chisholm with a one-game suspension and an undisclosed fine, a day after the Yankees’ second baseman was ejected from the win over the Rays for arguing balls and strikes and then went back to the clubhouse and posted on social media about it before the game was over.
Chisholm was appealing the suspension so he could play Friday’s game at Steinbrenner Field.
“Not even f–king close!!!!!” Chisholm posted on X just minutes after he was tossed Thursday, then deleted it before the end of the night.
The suspension largely had to do with his violation of the league’s social media policy because his post was sent while the game was still being played, and it also may have fit the category of “denigrates a major league umpire.”
If Chisholm had just been ejected, he likely only would have been paying a fine on Friday.
“Yeah, I don’t want him doing that,” manager Aaron Boone said Friday of Chisholm posting his frustration to social media during the game. “That’s a no.”
Since Chisholm was acquired from the Marlins at the trade deadline last summer, Boone has encouraged the 27-year-old to be himself — a unique character who carries himself with swagger and a free spirit.
But posting to social media minutes after he was ejected Thursday went a step too far.
“We have those conversations all the time,” Boone said. “The good thing with Jazz is he’s a great guy, and he’s smart. He and I have a lot of really good conversations about these things, and he usually does a really good job of learning from different moments.”
Chisholm had calmed down after Thursday’s game but was still mad — both at home plate umpire John Bacon for making the call (and saying something to Chisholm that riled him up in the argument) and at himself for losing his cool.
“I feel like a lot of stuff hasn’t been going my way, but that doesn’t give me the excuse to go out there and act like that,” Chisholm said Thursday night. “I’m a ballplayer, I have emotions. I know I’ve acted like that in the past, but that’s what I’ve really worked on to the present now. … Everybody makes mistakes, but at the same time, I get emotional. I get emotional about a game, especially when I think I’m right.”
The 3-2 pitch from Mason Montgomery did appear to cross the plate below the strike zone, but Chisholm had actually been spared a strikeout one pitch earlier when Montgomery’s 99 mph fastball appeared to clip the zone but was called ball three.
Boone tried to run out to the plate to get Chisholm back to the dugout before he got ejected, but he was too late.
It marked Chisholm’s fifth career ejection, his first as a Yankee. Oswald Peraza replaced him at second base in the bottom of the seventh.
“He understands that he’s got to do better in those moments of trying to rein that in right there,” Boone said. “So that’s usually where I like to get involved. I think it’s another growth opportunity for him in an area that he has grown a lot already in.”
Chisholm did not think anything he said before getting tossed was “ejectable” but acknowledged that he got his money’s worth afterward. He would not divulge what Bacon said to him but indicated that it got him more riled up in the heat of the moment.
“Any time you’re a hitter and you make that long of a display — usually there’s a little bit of rope, which I thought Bacon gave to him a little bit,” Boone said. “But I don’t know exactly what was said. I don’t have an issue with him getting tossed at a certain point when you’re demonstrative out there after a call.”
