Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. receives one-game suspension for outburst, social media posting during game

TAMPA, Fla. — Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s outburst toward plate umpire John Bacon on Thursday night — and subsequent comment regarding the incident on social media — proved costly.

For him in the wallet and, potentially, to the Yankees for a future game.

Major League Baseball announced early Friday evening that Chisholm, ejected in the seventh inning of the Yankees’ 6-3 victory over the Rays for arguing a called third strike on a 3-and-2 pitch that appeared low, has been fined an undisclosed amount and suspended one game.

Chisholm appealed the suspension, which allowed him to be in the lineup and bat fifth on Friday night. He can play until the appeal is heard.

The fine was for the ejection, as is the case for any player, manager or coach thrown out of a game. The suspension was for Chisholm running afoul of the prohibition of players using social media during the course of the game. About five minutes after his ejection, Chisholm took to X and posted: “Not even [expletive] close!!!!!,” a clear reference to the pitch Bacon punched him out on.

“Yeah, I don’t want him doing that,” Aaron Boone said before Friday night’s game of Chisholm taking to X (a post he later deleted).

Both Chisholm (Thursday) and Boone (Friday) talked about the improvement that the second baseman has made when it comes to dealing with umpires. Thursday night marked the fifth ejection of Chisholm’s six-year career but only his first since last April 30 while a member of the Marlins.

“He’s had his fair share of ejections in his career, [something] he’s gotten a lot better at,” Boone said. “He understands he has to do better in those moments of trying to rein that [emotion] there. I think it’s another growth opportunity for him in an area he’s grown a lot already in.”

Wells out with illness

First it was Cody Bellinger missing a game on April 8 in Detroit because of food poisoning, caused, he said, by some bad chicken wings. On Friday night, it was Austin Wells, who woke up at about 7 a.m. Friday feeling “not so great” because of something he ate the night before. Wells was held out of the lineup against the Rays.

“No idea what happened,” he said of what caused it.

The second-year catcher, who possesses a deadpan, cutting wit, added with a slight smile: “Someone poisoned me in my sleep.”

By Erik Boland

erik.boland@newsday.comeboland11

Erik Boland started in Newsday's sports department in 2002. He covered high school and college sports, then shifted to the Jets beat. He has covered the Yankees since 2009.