NEW YORK -- It was not the catcher-miming, Aaron Boone says, that earned him the one-game suspension that he received on Sunday from Major League Baseball. Instead it was the contact he made with home-plate umpire Nic Lentz on Friday night, after his ejection from an eventual 7-5 win over the Tigers, that led to the discipline that will sideline him for Sunday's series finale.
The on-field theatrics and the ejection came after Lentz called a 1-1 pitch from Jordan Zimmermann to Gleyber Torres a strike. The first-year skipper continued his protest outside the dugout after he was tossed, squatting behind home plate to demonstrate his displeasure with Lentz's calls.