Aaron Boone put just two batters into Monday’s game against the Athletics, but this one appeared to be his first.
After a pitch from Carlos Rodon to Tyler Nevin, home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt headed to the Yankees’ dugout and ejected an unsuspecting Boone.
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A microphone on the field picked up Wendelstedt telling Boone just before he was ejected, “I have nothing else to say, you’re gone.”
Boone remained silent, but after just a few seconds, Wendelstedt turned around again and said, “Aaron, it’s over.”
When Boone realized what had happened, he immediately jumped out of the dugout and pointed to the stands behind the dugout, reminding Wendelstedt that everything he heard came from the stands and not himself. Indicated.
Wendelstedt replied, “I don’t care who said it, you’re gone.”
Then Boone ran up to the plate and said, I didn’t say a word. That’s a bull. ”
Boone and Wendelstedt jawed at the plate, and crew chief Marvin Hudson also joined in the altercation before Boone left the field, only to turn away and get into further altercation with Hudson, who then got fed up and walked out of the dugout. I left behind.
Bench coach Brad Ausmus took over from Boone.
It was Boone’s second ejection of the season.
