Jazz Chisholm blasts homer as bat does talking this time to help Yankees roll by Reds
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was seeing red Tuesday night, which Jose Trevino may have had something to do with.By Wednesday, the only red in Chisholm’s sight was the color of the right field seats where his moonshot of a two-run homer was landing.And of course, his trip around the bases brought him right past Trevino, when the Yankees third baseman got the last laugh with his former teammate.A night after getting ejected in the ninth inning, Chisholm let his bat do the talking, with his two-run shot keying a 7-1 win over the Reds to avoid a sweep at Great American Ballpark.Max Fried was terrific again, tossing seven innings of one-run ball while helping the Yankees (46-34) win for the fourth time in their past 13 games and maintain a one-game lead over the Rays atop the AL East.Chisholm was not available for the final two and a half innings of Tuesday’s 11-inning loss after getting ejected in the ninth.
He had been upset about a called strike against him in the top of the ninth and then was still talking (he claimed) to himself at third base while taking grounders when he looked up and saw home plate umpire Mark Wegner staring at him.Chisholm asked Wegner why he was looking at him, which was apparently enough to get him tossed.Before Wednesday’s game, manager Aaron Boone indicated — perhaps slightly tongue in cheek — that Trevino “contributed to the ejection” by getting Wegner to look at Chisholm.
Video later surfaced via the YES Network that showed Trevino, who had come out on deck, appearing to tip off Wegner in Chisholm’s direction.So when Chisholm clobbered his 11th homer of the season in the third inning, he flipped his bat and took a nice trot around the bases.Then when he crossed home plate, he appeared to say something to Trevino, with both smiling about it, as he put the Yankees ahead 3-0.Befo...