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Boone added that on Tuesday, he had a conversation with MLB Senior Vice President of On-Field Operations Mike Hill. He refused to provide specifics of their conversation.
Boone remarked, “I don’t like doing that.” However, I also had the impression that I had to battle what was going on in that game.
After Anthony Volpe was ruled out on strikes against reliever Bryan Shaw to start the eighth inning on Monday, Diaz threw out Boone.
The manager leaned over and used his finger to make a line in the dirt at the edge of the left-handed batter’s box to indicate where he believed the pitch was. He then imitated Diaz’s forceful call of strike three, which earned him the sixth dismissal in the history of the American League. Additionally, he has two consecutive AL manager ejection titles.
After being ejected, Yankees manager Aaron Boone made fun of home plate umpire Laz Diaz.
At Yankee Stadium, Aaron Boone watched Friday’s game from Brian Cashman’s box while the manager was suspended for one game due to his recent behavior toward umpires.
Boone described the suspension as a “weird experience” on Saturday.
Boone was dismissed from the Orioles game on Thursday. It was his third expulsion in the previous ten games for the Yankees and his fourth of the season.
After contesting Edwin Moscoso’s strike zone, the manager was fired. The captain maintained that Moscoso’s back to the manager shouldn’t have resulted in Boone’s ejection, but when Moscoso did, Boone lost it.
Boone’s mouth spittle sprayed in Moscoso’s direction, forcing crew chief Chris Guccione to step in between them.
Boone claimed that on the Friday afternoon and the evening of the ejection, he spoke with Michael Hill, senior vice president for on-field operations for Major League Baseball, several times. Based on his first conversation with Hill, Boone was “surprised” and “caught off guard” when he learned of his suspension on Friday during batting practice.
