Aaron Boone did what he could to diffuse the Josh Donaldson-Tim Anderson feud on Sunday, and he wanted the Yankees to “hopefully just play ball.”
One day after tensions escalated over Donaldson referring to Anderson by Jackie Robinson’s first name, there were no fireworks between the teams or from the Yankees’ bats aside from Aaron Judge’s game-tying home run in the eighth inning.
But Aroldis Chapman’s troubling two-week skid continued — with a possible Achilles injury explanation — in the ninth inning of a 3-1 loss to the White Sox in the first game of a doubleheader at the Stadium.
Judge’s solo blast off reliever Kendall Graveman, his ML-leading 15th of the season, knotted the score, but A.J. Pollock greeted Chapman with a leadoff homer to left in the ninth as the league-leading Yankee slipped to 29-11 at the 40-game mark.
It was the fifth consecutive game in which Chapman has allowed at least one earned run since May 11 — following a 12-appearance scoreless string to start the season — and the second in which he’s suffered a loss.
“He’s just not as fine with his command,” Boone said of Chapman between games. “I think at times he’s going away from his fastball. He got beat on the fastball today by Pollock but just not quite as sharp as certainly we’ve seen.”
Chapman was checked out by trainer Mike Schuk after issuing a walk to pinch-hitter Andrew Vaughn following the Pollock homer. The Cuban lefty remained in the game and also coughed up an RBI double to Adam Engel for a 3-1 game before Boone pulled him to heavy boos from the twin-bill crowd.
“He wanted to pitch. He’s just dealing with and was getting some treatment on his Achilles. I just felt like when he was moving around, he wasn’t moving around great out there. But he wanted the ball,” Boone said. “I think to me, he didn’t look great on his legs with that. So I think that was probably an issue today.”
The dugouts had cleared the previous day, shortly after Donaldson had referred to Anderson as “Jackie,” infuriating the White Sox shortstop. Donaldson said after the game that he was making a joke about Anderson dubbing himself “today’s Jackie Robinson” in a 2019 Sports Illustrated story, but Chicago manager Tony La Russa called it a “racist” comment.
With MLB investigating the incident, Donaldson was in the Yankees’ starting lineup and went 0-for-4. Anderson was rested for the opener with the expectation he would start in the nightcap, La Russa said.
Jameson Taillon posted his longest start among eight this season in Game 1, allowing just one earned run — on three straight singles in the fourth — over seven innings with one walk and seven strikeouts.
“Happy I could go deep with today being a doubleheader, so I feel good about that,” Taillon said. “Today was probably the first day of the season where I felt I was executing everything in my arsenal.”
Veteran righty Johnny Cueto similarly kept the Yanks off balance and scattered four hits through six shutout frames. Judge clobbered Graveman’s 0-2 two-seamer into the second deck in left with one down in the eighth for a 1-1 game, but the Yanks stranded runners on the corners on Aaron Hicks’ pop-up to end the inning ahead of Chapman’s latest concerning outing in the ninth.
“He’s had a couple of hiccups here and even though it hasn’t been perfect this first month or two, he’s still been for the most part getting results,” Boone said. “It’s been the last couple, where he’s struggled a little bit when it comes down to command.
“We’ve seen him go through stretches like this at different times in different lengths of stretch over the course of the year. We’ve just got to continue to work to try and get him right, because when he gets synced up, delivery-wise and strike-throwing-wise, he’s still got the stuff that could be dominant.”
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