Aaron Boone on Thursday was ejected from a game for the third time this season.
Boone was tossed from the New York Yankees-Tampa Bay Rays game by umpire Brennan Miller in the bottom of the second inning for complaining about balls and strikes.
Brett Gardner struck out looking on an inside pitch that he thought was a ball.
Brett Gardner wasn't pleased with the strike zone, and he went off in the dugout. This is Brennan Miller's fifth career game behind home plate. #Yankees pic.twitter.com/wZ3uMnDIzz
— Tom Hanslin (@TomHanslin) July 18, 2019
Gardner was frustrated as he went into the dugout and started banging his bat against the roof of the dugout. Boone began yelling at Miller over the call. The Yankees manager continued to yell during DJ LeMahieu’s at-bat and was finally ejected by Miller.
The transcription from Boone’s rant is amazing but contains profanity:
Here is the full sequence of the Boone ejection. Hot mics galore. pic.twitter.com/R6Vw0qw0qn
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) July 18, 2019
The Yankees had been upset with Miller over his strike zone for the entire game.
In the top of the first, Gary Sanchez couldn’t believe that a low pitch at the knees wasn’t called for a Domingo German strike.
Seen Gary shake his head before but have never seen him turn around and straight tell the ump he's wrong pic.twitter.com/AlbNw3wgta
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) July 18, 2019
German was squeezed on pitches low in the zone that Miller was missing.
Domingo Germán was, um, squeezed a little bit in that first inning. These are the pitches called for balls, not strikes. Unfortunately Gary Sánchez is one of the least effective catchers in the majors at framing those low strikes, fwiw. pic.twitter.com/TA669a6gS6
— Lindsey Adler (@lindseyadler) July 18, 2019
In the bottom of the first, a very low pitch was called a strike against Aaron Judge.
Strike 2 to Judge pic.twitter.com/UzytR400Ub
— David Mendelsohn (@BigBabyDavid_) July 18, 2019
Miller’s zone was very inconsistent. He is a young umpire just calling his fifth MLB game behind the plate as he was only called up from the minors in April.
