MLB suspends Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. one game for social media outburst after ejection

New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. was fixed a good and one-game suspension aft helium lashed retired astatine an umpire online and in-person aft being ejected pursuing a arguable telephone successful the team’s triumph implicit the Tampa Bay Rays connected Thursday. 

MLB elder vice president of on-field operations Michael Hill announced the determination connected Friday, citing a usurpation of the league’s societal media policy. 

New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) is ejected aft arguing astir his strike-out during the seventh inning against the Tampa Bay Rays astatine George M. Steinbrenner Field connected April 17, 2025.  (Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images)

Chisholm was ejected successful the seventh inning aft helium argued a 3rd onslaught telephone from sheet umpire John Bacon. After arguing astatine the plate, Chisholm was thrown retired of the game. 

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According to MLB.com, Chisholm past took to societal media to stock his quality of opinion. He sent a station connected X astatine astir 9:24 p.m. which read, "Not adjacent f---ing close." The station was sent portion the crippled was inactive going on, and was swiftly deleted. 

The station was an evident usurpation of Major League Baseball’s social media policy, which prohibits the usage of physics devices during games. According to the policy, "electronic equipment" whitethorn not beryllium utilized 30 minutes anterior to the commencement of a crippled until its conclusion. 

New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr., center, reacts aft getting called retired connected strikes by location sheet umpire John Bacon, left, during the seventh inning of a shot crippled against the Tampa Bay Rays connected Thursday, April 17, 2025, successful Tampa, Fla.  (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

YANKEES' JAZZ CHISHOLM JR. VIOLATES MLB SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY IN POST RIPPING UMPIRE AFTER EJECTION

Additionally, the argumentation prohibits immoderate contented "that questions the impartiality of oregon different denigrates a Major oregon Minor League umpire." Chisholm’s actions connected Thursday nighttime appeared to interruption some of those rules. 

He was fined an undisclosed magnitude and was suspended for one-game. Because helium appealed the decision, Chisholm was capable to play successful New York’s 1-0 triumph over Tampa Bay connected Friday night. He started astatine 2nd basal and went 0 for 4 with 2 strikeouts.

New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) is ejected aft arguing arsenic manager Aaron Boone (17) comes retired during the seventh inning against the Tampa Bay Rays astatine George M. Steinbrenner Field connected April 17, 2025. (Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images)

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"I'm a competitor, truthful erstwhile I spell retired there, and I consciousness similar I'm right, and you're saying thing to maine that I deliberation doesn't marque sense, I'm going to get fired up and beryllium upset," Chisholm said aft his ejection. 

"I mislaid my emotions, I mislaid my cool. So, astatine the aforesaid time, I inactive got to beryllium capable to enactment retired determination and play defence for my team. That's wherefore I'm here."

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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