Yankees manager Aaron Boone REJECTED in first inning after umpires overturned decision to allow Cincinnati Reds run to score…though New York stopped play on foul ball call
- Jake Bauers was unable to play on what was first ruled a foul ball
- But it turned out to be fair and the Reds scored – with a furious Boone thrown out
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New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone was thrown out of his team’s game against the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning after a foul ball rolled back.
With the Reds’ Jonathan India on first base, Cincinnati’s Spencer Steer shot a ball down the first base line.
Right fielder Jake Bauers ran over to try to play the ball, but it came out of his glove. His bubbling attempts to stop the ball were in vain as he fell onto his side.
First base umpire Nestor Ceja threw up both hands to signal it was a foul ball, but India kept running home and eventually reached the ball before returning to first base.
But on closer inspection, Bauers hit the ball in good territory, he only rolled it out and made a mistake. Reds manager David Bell challenged and reversed the call meaning the run was scored.
An irate Aaron Boone was ejected over a controversial umpire call for the Reds on Sunday
It is the second time in a week that Boone has been ejected from a Yankees game
Yankees outfielder Jake Bauers was unable to make a play on what was ruled a foul ball
But the umpires reversed it, allowing a Reds run to score and Boone getting ejected
Boone furiously left the dugout and began arguing his case with second base umpire Brian O’Nora—he said that Ceja’s decision to call it foul meant the Yankees thought the action was dead and therefore had no action to go to the plate. made.
But O’Nora apparently had enough of Boone and dismissed him despite it being only the first inning.
Boone flew into a rage and yelled furiously at O’Nora before going to Ceja and yelling at him as well.
The Yankees went on without their skipper for the remainder of the game, scoring runs on a two-run home run by Harrison Bader in the fifth inning.
And the Yankees recorded a 4-1 victory on Sunday, bringing their record for the season to 29-20.
After the game, Boone spoke to YES Network and explained his anger and what happened in the infield with O’Nora.
“Obviously it was a good ball and we knew it,” Boone explained. “And when they said he scored, I objected.”
‘[I] at least wanted to know the explanation for it and didn’t really get it. Actually, I’m just saying you can’t argue with this. I said I wanted the explanation. But in the end, I think the way the ball trickled out, I think you could say he scores there.’
Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell was eventually ejected from the game as well
The Yankees won the game thanks to home runs by Harrison Bader (L) and Gleyber Torres (R)
Later, Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell was also ejected from the game. That was the first time this season that both managers were thrown out of a game.
Boone was also thrown against the Blue Jays earlier this week for furiously arguing with plate umpire Clint Vondrak over a slider that was under the zone, but called a strike against Aaron Judge.
It caused an argument between dugouts that raised questions about whether Aaron Judge was receiving signals about the upcoming Blue Jays field because of his sideways glances before hitting a huge home run.
Judge said he was instead trying not to be distracted by the turmoil in the two camps.