New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone put together a vintage performance in Friday’s loss to the Boston Red Sox.
It’s damn-near impossible to find a better temper tantrum artist in MLB.
Boone, to be fair, watched his squad come out on the losing end of two crucial calls in extra-innings. Anthony Volpe kicked things off by being thrown out at third base, with his initial safe call being overturned following a challenge by Boston. DJ LeMahieu then lined a ball that looked to clip the foul line — though it was called foul and ultimately upheld on a challenge by New York.
0-for-2.
Boone showed his displeasure with the latter call by flailing around and disrupting the pace of Red Sox pitcher Garrett Whitlock, eventually being ejected from the game before tossing his gum on the field in an act of defiance that can only be described as elementary. The Yankees skipper was asked about the sequence following the game, and sort of doubled down on the whole thing.
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“I don’t think they have the courage to overturn it,” Boone said of the foul ball call, as seen on NESN. “I want the courage to overturn the call — a quarter of the ball is on the line. It takes a lot of something…a lot of imagination to say that’s fair. Whatever, it’s over with. Not saying we score there. In the end, they outlasted us tonight.”
The Red Sox did, in fact, outlast their fiercest rival on Friday.
Carlos Narvaez, who swapped his pinstripes for red (and green and yellow) socks this offseason, walked things off with a wall-ball double in the bottom of the 10th inning to secure a 2-1 victory for the home squad. Boone watched from his office in the bowels of Fenway Park.
