KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Turns out Yankees third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. is just fine playing the role of playoff villain.
Chisholm made headlines after New York lost Game 2 of its AL Division Series to the Royals this week when he proclaimed they “just got lucky.” And the sellout crowd of 40,312 that greeted him back in Kansas City for Game 3 on Wednesday night reminded him of the comments, booing Chisholm every time he touched the ball or stepped to the plate. “I loved every single second of it.
I love it. It gets my juices flowing,” Chisholm said after the Yankees squeezed out a 3-2 win that put them on the brink of the American League Championship Series. “I’ve never seen anyone boo a bum.
It gets us going. That is the reaction I wanted and it got our juices flowing. Sounded like I got to a lot of people.
” Luck wasn't much on Chisholm's side — he was 0 for 4 with a strikeout. But the Yankees still won thanks to an eighth-inning homer by Giancarlo Stanton and a masterful performance by their bullpen, which pieced together 4 1/3 scoreless innings and silenced a feverish crowd witnessing the Royals' first home playoff game in nearly a decade. New York will try to clinch its spot in the American League Championship Series with Gerrit Cole on the mound Thursday night.
As for Chisholm, well, he's merely the latest Yankees player to suffer the vitriol of Kansas City fans. Those who were around in 2012, when Kauffman Stadium hosted the All-Star Game, remember t.
