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New York Yankees star infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. was booed during introductions for the World Baseball Classic on Friday, as he represented Team Great Britain.
Chisholm was the one participant to be booed during introductions of Great Britain’s sport against Mexico, which occurred in Houston, in line with USA Today’s Bob Nightengale. Chisholm was additionally jeered every time he got here to the plate.
The motive for the boos is unknown.
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Jazz Chisholm Jr., #3 of Team Great Britain, poses for a photograph during the Team Great Britain picture day at American Family Fields of Phoenix on Monday, March 2, 2026, in Phoenix, Arizona. (Norm Hall/WBCI/MLB Photos by way of Getty Images)
Chisholm selected to play for Great Britain as a result of he was born in The Bahamas, a former British colony and present Commonwealth realm, which makes him eligible underneath match guidelines.
Chisholm incited criticism a number of occasions during the 2025 season whereas taking part in for the Yankees. He was initially suspended for one sport and fined by MLB for posting “Not even f—ing close!!!!!” on X, showing to reference a call by an umpire to eject him in an April sport. The one-game suspension was overturned on attraction, however a tremendous remained.
The infielder was mocked on social media after a head-scratching baserunning blunder in opposition to his former workforce, the Miami Marlins, in August.
Chisholm was on first base within the high of the second inning with Paul Goldschmidt up at bat. The Yankees’ batter popped as much as Marlins’ second baseman Xavier Edwards. Chisholm was too far off first base and acquired caught napping. Edwards then threw the ball to first for the inning-ending double play.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. #3 of Great Britain reacts previous to the 2026 World Baseball Classic Pool B sport in opposition to Mexico at Daikin Park on March 6, 2026, in Houston, Texas. (Kenneth Richmond/Getty Images)
“What was Chisholm thinking?” Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay requested.
Chishlom mentioned afterward he wouldn’t have modified something, including that he was making an attempt to be aggressive on the basepaths by forcing Edwards to presumably make an error. He later didn’t begin Game 1 of the Yankees’ Wild Card sequence in opposition to the Boston Red Sox when the postseason started.
When reporters approached Chisholm within the Yankee clubhouse after the sport, he hardly paid them any thoughts, protecting his again turned for nearly all the length of his media session and shuffling issues in his locker.
“We gotta do whatever we gotta do to win, right? That’s how I look at it,” he mentioned begrudgingly.
After the Yankees’ playoff exit in a divisional spherical loss to the Toronto Blue Jays, Chisholm acquired backlash for a photograph exhibiting him partying with 50 Cent in a New York nightclub.
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Jul 19, 2025; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) on third base in opposition to the Atlanta Braves within the sixth inning at Truist Park. (Brett Davis-Imagn Images)
Prior to the beginning of final season, final March, Chisholm raised eyebrows when he declared that baseball is a “White Sport.”
“I don’t want to say this. Baseball is a White sport. I feel like White people criticize everything that a Black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds,” he told The Athletic. “The unwritten rules of baseball are White. And I always broke the unwritten rules of baseball.”
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