{"id":48165,"date":"2025-05-14T08:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48165"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:08:39","slug":"yankees-aaron-boone-earns-ejection-after-ridiculous-jasson-dominguez-strike-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=48165","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Aaron Boone earns ejection after ridiculous Jasson Dominguez strike call"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New York Yankees benefitted from the Seattle Mariners’ shoddy defense in their game-tying ninth inning rally, but home plate umpire Mark Wegner made sure to halt their fledgling momentum in its tracks with a positively absurd low strike call to Jasson Dominguez with the lead run in scoring position.<\/p>\n

It’s the inconsistency that kills you. The two-strike slider that Mariners closer Andres Mu\u00f1oz delivered to Austin Wells might’ve clipped the bottom of the zone, but it was called a ball. The two strike low fastball to Dominguez was five inches further below the zone, yet somehow … strike three after the game had been tied in the most critical of situations.<\/p>\n

Yankees manager Aaron Boone had seen enough, especially after his starting pitcher Max Fried was squeezed at every turn. Fried was forced to exit after the fifth inning, laboring through his outing on 91 pitches in part because the home plate umpire couldn’t figure out what he liked.<\/p>\n

That left\u00a0Boone flummoxed and ready to blow off\u00a0a significant amount of steam at the drop of a hat – or, rather, at yet another dropping of the ball. That ridiculous Dominguez call sufficed, and he was swiftly ejected after racing out of the dugout, getting some licks in before he left.<\/p>\n

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