The New York Yankees defeated the Kansas Metropolis Royals 3-1 on Thursday evening in Recreation 4 of the ALDS, thereby clinching the sequence and advancing to the AL Championship Sequence. The Yankees will await the winners of Saturday’s sport between the Cleveland Guardians and Detroit Tigers, with the ALCS slated to open Monday in New York.

One eyebrow-raising second from Thursday’s win got here throughout the backside of the sixth inning, when the benches and bullpens cleared following the completion of a double play. As you’ll be able to see beneath, Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe utilized a tag to Royals third baseman Maikel Garcia to get the second out; Garcia appeared to slip a little bit late, and Volpe appeared to make contact with Garcia’s higher physique together with his arm. The scene escalated afterward, nonetheless, with Volpe’s teammates Gerrit Cole and Jazz Chisholm each seemingly taking exception to Garcia’s conduct. Have a look:

Chisholm, for his half, supplied probably the most biting rebuke of Garcia.

“I simply felt like he tried to go and injure Volpe as a result of he was being a sore loser,” he informed reporters (through MLB.com). “He was speaking so much on Instagram and Twitter and stuff. I do the identical factor, however I am not gonna go and attempt to injure any individual in the event that they’re successful a sport, and I did not like that so I informed him we do not do this on this aspect and I am at all times gonna stick up for my guys.”

Garcia’s perspective was supplied by Royals skipper Matt Quatraro, who informed reporters that Garcia was annoyed as a result of he felt Volpe had blocked the bottom. 

Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone, in the meantime, could have had the most effective perspective on the matter: he did not appear to have a lot perception into what precisely brought about the brouhaha, and he additionally did not appear to care. 

“If there’s [someone] upset over the slide,” Boone stated throughout his postgame press convention, “simply return and present a little bit Hal McRae-Willie Randolph and we’ll all snicker at ourselves.”

For anybody who would not get the reference, effectively, right here it’s, from Recreation 2 of the 1977 ALCS that was, fittingly, additionally between the Yankees and the Royals:

It is price noting that the Yankees and Royals engaged in additional extracurricular exercise later in that sequence, with George Brett and Graig Nettles buying and selling recipes following Brett’s RBI triple in Recreation 5:

It doesn’t matter what brought about the dust-up on Thursday evening or who bears probably the most duty for it, these Yankees and Royals will not have the chance to commerce fisticuffs in their very own Recreation 5 — no less than not this 12 months. As an alternative, the Yankees will transfer on to play for the pennant and the Royals will go residence for the winter.