New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone has a heated exchange in the dugout. Photo Credit: YES Network Photo Credit: YES Network
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One day after the New York Yankees suffered the “worst loss of the year” in a meltdown against the Miami Marlins, the Yankees were shut out 2-0 by the Marlins and had a brutal baserunning blunder.

In addition to plenty of questioning from announcers Michael Kay and Paul O’Neill, the YES Network broadcast showed Yankees manager Aaron Boone expressing his frustration in the dugout on Saturday.

With one out in the top of the fifth inning, the Yankees’ Paul Goldschmidt hit a routine pop-up to second baseman Xavier Edwards. Well, it turned into an inning-ending play, thanks to baserunner Jazz Chisholm Jr. being too far off first base and Edwards alertly making a quick throw to double him off.

A stunned Kay asked, “WHAT WAS CHISHOLM THINKING?!”

O’Neill followed with, “What… What is going on?”

An inning later, the YES Network broadcast showed Boone in the dugout asking Chisholm to follow him down to the runway to have a conversation about the gaffe.

In a conversation that wasn’t private, YES Network later showed Boone having a heated exchange with first-base coach Travis Chapman.

“Aaron Boone is trying to address everything, and here he is with Travis Chapman, the first-base coach, and he seems heated in talking to Chapman,” Kay said. “I always have to wonder, Paul, when do you blame the players, and when do you blame the coaches? Shouldn’t the player not to do that too? I’m not defending Chapman here; I understand what Boone’s doing. But when are the players culpable?”

“I think the players are the ones to blame,” O’Neill responded. “But, you know, the first-base coach and the third-base coach, they do have a job. At that point, you’re screaming, ‘Get back! Get back! Get back!’ So, you know what, there’s blame on both parts.”

O’Neill and Kay then talked about the rare visible frustration from Boone.

“That’s about as heated as I’ve seen Aaron Boone in the dugout when talking to a coach,” O’Neill said, to which Kay agreed.

“Because, to be brutally honest, you don’t know where it ends, players fall, coaches fall, managers fall, but when it continues to happen, it’s not reflecting well on Boone,” Kay said. “So, obviously, he’s getting hot about it.”

“Fundamentals of the game are taught in spring training, and there are certain things that managers are very responsible for,” O’Neill said. “And baserunning is one of them.”

The frustration from Boone, the team, and the New York media will only increase if the title-hopeful Yankees don’t start playing better baseball soon. The Yankees have fallen to third place in the AL East and are 4.5 games behind the first-place Toronto Blue Jays.

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