Yankees' Aaron Boone suspended 1 game by MLB for conduct toward umpires

Yankees manager Aaron Boone received a one-game suspension after his latest ejection and admitted his arguments may have created an image in the umpires’ minds.

“Well, I think I’ve earned that reputation,” he said Friday before Major League Baseball suspended him for one game and fined him.

Michael Hill, MLB’s senior vice president of field operations, made the announcement. MLB said the discipline was “for his recent conduct toward major league umpires, including actions following his ejection from Thursday night’s game against the Baltimore Orioles.”

Boone sat out Friday night’s series opener against San Diego when bench coach Carlos Mendoza took over as coach.

Boone was ejected for a major league-high fourth time this season, the most among major league managers, when he got angry in Edwin Moscoso’s strike zone during a 3-1 loss . Boone held up four fingers while arguing in the middle of the third inning, indicating that Boone thought the plate umpire missed four pitches.

Boone was angry too. Moscoco left during the argument and first base umpire Chris Guccione, the crew chief, stepped between the two when Boone tried to re-engage Moscoso. Boone may have spat at an umpire while arguing.

“Do I think it’s leading to a quick hook? Not necessarily,” Boone said. “Maybe I’m deluded and that I did more than I think. I don’t think that’s the case. But, no, I don’t think that the referees who come in, as if they weren’t targeting me. I tolerate certain things. I think that I’m being fair way”.

Boone’s four ejections this year are one more than Cincinnati’s David Bell and St. Louis’ Oliver Marmol. Louis. Boone led the majors with nine last season, when no other manager had more than five.

“I think there’s probably some occasional bias,” Boone said. “We’re human beings. I’m sure some people don’t like to hear about me.”

Boone was ejected against Cleveland on April 12, against Toronto on May 15 and against Cincinnati on Sunday

His 30 ejections are sixth among current managers, though his 720 games entering Friday were far fewer than those with the most ejections: Bruce Bochy (78 in 4,081 games), Bob Melvin (55 in 2,830), Terry Franconian (47 in 3,509). , Bud Black (35 in 2,283) and Buck Showalter (34 in 3,282).

Boone averages a strikeout every 25 games, a much faster pace than Bochy and Melvin (52), Black (65), Francona (75) and Showalter (97).

Bell had 23 ejections in 596 games, an average of one per 26 games.

“I don’t like that it’s happened a few times this week, and I’d like to not get ejected and hopefully he can start a long streak of not getting ejected,” Boone said. “I’m not necessarily afraid, but no, it’s not my intention to get kicked out and I don’t want to. And I hope I don’t for a while.”

Report from The Associated Press.

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