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Aaron Boone leaves after lengthy rant for imitating his brother
Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected from the game after a heated argument with pitch umpire Laz Diaz.
Boone said he spoke with MLB senior vice president of field operations Mike Hill on Tuesday. He did not disclose the details of their discussion.
“I don’t like that,” Boone said. “But I also felt that I had to fight with what was going on in that match.”
After Anthony Volpe was out for a strike against reliever Brian Shaw in the eighth inning, Boone was thrown to Diaz. He then made the most of his American League-leading sixth ejection.
Boone ran to home plate and entered the arm-waving play.
The manager bent over and drew a line in the dirt with his finger on the edge of the left-handed batter’s box to indicate where the pitch was, mimicking Diaz’s emphasis on a strike three.
Mr. Boone said he had heard from “a good number” of fellow managers, adding that “most of them were funny.”
