Aaron Judge, the Yankees captain was ejected from an actual ve game for the first time in his career on Saturday at Yankee Stadium.
Although the Yankees won 5-3 against the Tigers, it was like a dent in Judges sparkled career.
In the match, home plate umpire Ryan Blakney tossed Judge shortly after he rang him up on a strike three call in the seventh inning. Aaron disagreed with the call, shooting Blanket a knowing look. However, he turned and walked back to the dugout and that’s when he was ejected.
Judge’s first ejection came in his 870th big league game. He also became the first Yankees captain to be ejected from a game since Don Mattingly on May 13, 1994.
“Apparently Aaron did not agree with the pitch and said something that you shouldn’t have said, and he was ejected,“ crew chief Alan Porter told a pool reporter.
“We do what we can to keep guys in the game, but he said something he shouldn’t have said. … There are things you cannot say no matter what’s going on. Things that you can’t say, and he apparently did.”
After the game, Judge declined to reveal what he said to Blakney, saying, “We’ll leave it out there [on the field].”
“I was walking away kind of saying my piece,” Judge said. “I’ve said a lot worse. [The ejection] made a scene, and I usually try not to make a scene in situations like that, so I was a little surprised walking away that it happened.”
Judge and manager Aaron Boone said they were surprised by the ejection, since the captain had no problems before.
