Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected from Monday’s game against the A’s in the top of the first inning after being warned by home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt to stop complaining.
Boone did what Wendelstedt asked, but a fan in a nearby seat screamed at the umpire and he immediately tossed Boone.
“It was not right,” Boone said after the game, which the Yankees lost 2-0. “It really is a bad… It’s embarrassing. Just not good.”
Boone came charging out of the dugout after Wendelstedt ejected him and explained that he had not said anything after the warning. That, somehow, did not matter.
“I don’t care who said it, you’re gone,” Wendelstedt said.
Boone said he did hear what the fan said to Wendelstedt, but wasn’t given much of an opportunity to clear his name.
“I did, and I heard somebody yell, but I was standing down and I heard ‘You’re gone, Aaron,’ and I couldn’t believe it,” he said.
