Jazz Chisholm Jr. was doubled off first base <\/a>on a high pop out to second base in the top of the second inning Saturday afternoon, wandering too far off the bag because he was guarding against Marlins second baseman Xavier Edwards dropping it on purpose and throwing Chisholm out at second.<\/p>\nManager Aaron Boone said Chisholm \u201ccan\u2019t get caught there,\u201d but Chisholm insisted he would not do it differently next time, with the brutal gaffe looming over the 2-0 loss to the Marlins.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just trying to be aggressive, already playing with both the middle infielders out there,\u201d said Chisholm, the former Marlin. \u201cI saw something that I thought they were going to do. [Edwards] deked it like he was going to [drop it purposely], he didn\u2019t do it. Still trying to be aggressive because I played here before, I know how the field plays. Sometimes you get aggressive and you get caught up and you make an out.\u201d<\/p>\n
New York Yankees\u2019 Ryan McMahon, front left, walks back to the dugout after striking out while looking in the fifth inning against the Miami Marlins on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in Miami. AP<\/p>\n
During this skid that has now gone on seven weeks \u2014 with the Yankees (60-51) going 18-26, which on Saturday dropped them into third place in the AL East, 4 \u00b9\/\u2082 games behind the Blue Jays and a half-game behind the Red Sox \u2014 there have been too many times when a lack of fundamentals has come back to cost them. Of course, it haunted them in the World Series last October, but Saturday\u2019s example may have risen to the top of this season\u2019s list.<\/p>\n
As has been the case most times when these things have popped up, Boone did not pull Chisholm from the game because, the manager said, it was not a case of him \u201cdogging it.\u201d The two had a conversation down in the tunnel when Chisholm got back to the dugout after the next half-inning, with Boone searching for an explanation of what happened, but the second baseman remained in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a guy trying to make a play,\u201d Boone said. \u201cI get it looks bad and it\u2019s a bad play. But it\u2019s not a case of a guy that\u2019s dogging it. \u2026 Just because it\u2019s going bad right now and the world\u2019s on fire, I\u2019m not just going to take guys out for giving a crap.\u201d<\/p>\n
At one point, Boone did appear to be ticked off at and express his frustrations with first base coach Travis Chapman in plain view of cameras, though Boone downplayed it after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing I was saying was, \u2018Could we have yelled louder once he got into the danger zone?\u2019\u201d Boone said. \u201cIf you feel that danger zone, being real adamant. That\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Edwards said he knew Chisholm could tell he was thinking about dropping it \u2014 while standing \u201c20-25 feet off the base, if not more,\u201d Edwards said \u2014 because the Marlins would prefer Goldschmidt over Chisholm on first base.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried to catch it as late as possible to give myself a chance to catch and throw and catch him sleeping a little,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n
Cody Bellinger breaks his bat against the Miami Marlins during the first inning at loanDepot Park. Rhona Wise-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
But Chisholm was adamant that if Edwards had dropped the ball, he would have made it to second safely.<\/p>\n
\u201cEasily,\u201d he said. \u201cI was playing the drop. It would have bounced too high and by the time it came down, I would have gotten there, so it would have been fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yankees, who mustered just two hits off Eury P\u00e9rez and the Marlins bullpen and had their final 14 batters retired in order, had made another out on the bases to end the top of the first. But that one was on a questionable send by third base coach Luis Rojas, waving Trent Grisham around on Giancarlo Stanton\u2019s line-drive single to left field, only to be thrown out easily at the plate.<\/p>\n
Agust\u00edn Ram\u00edrez celebrates with Liam Hicks of the Miami Marlins after hitting a home run against the New York Yankees during the fourth inning at loanDepot park on August 2, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Getty Images<\/p>\n
But Chisholm\u2019s gaffe was the latest in a line of too many by the Yankees this season \u2014 the most recent prior one being Austin Wells getting tagged out <\/a>in the bottom of the ninth inning Wednesday after thinking there were three outs.<\/p>\n\u201cYou\u2019re going to make some mistakes on the bases,\u201d Boone said. \u201cI would argue with you that we\u2019re not making \u2014 in compared to the league \u2014 a number of outs advancing or outs on the bases. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when you are the New York Yankees and you\u2019re losing and you make a mistake, look what just happened. I can show you around the league, it happening all the time. It doesn\u2019t make it OK. We want to be as clean and as perfect as we can be, without question. Don\u2019t get it twisted. Don\u2019t think, \u2018Oh yeah, it\u2019s fine.\u2019 It\u2019s not fine. But s-\u200a-t happens sometimes too. Really good teams that are buttoned up make a mistake trying to advance or run into an out or kick a ball. We have to be better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t realized our potential yet. We got to get there. We got a couple months to do it and we better hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 The Yankees have a new candidate for the most unforgivable baserunning mistake of the season. Jazz…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9138,1286,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-115125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-jazz-chisholm","10":"tag-miami-marlins","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114963866341923042","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}