Devastated Yankees star Jazz Chisholm Jr. turns on his own fans after getting booed in playoff defeat

Jazz Chisholm Jr. has turned on New York Yankees fans after they booed him during the team’s elimination from the playoffs on Wednesday night.

The Yankees were dumped out of World Series contention after getting swept 3-0 by the Tampa Bay Rays on an acrimonious night in The Bronx.

With the Yankees’ season on the line, Anthony Volpe was denied a tying home run in Game 3 of the AL Division Series when a replay review determined a fan interfered with his drive to deep left field Wednesday night.

But that was not the only contentious issue involving fans as boos rained down from the stands at Yankee Stadium as the team headed toward another postseason failure.

Some of their frustration was aimed at Chisholm Jr. and he was asked how it felt to be booed by his own fans after the game.

‘It’s the playoffs and we’re trying to win games,’ he told reporters. ‘You’re booing a guy that’s trying to help the team win and you’re hearing boos instead of trying to hype guys up.’

‘Like I said, at the end of the day it didn’t hurt me,’ he continued. ‘I’ve seen Aaron Judge get booed here too. Who am I? He’s a three-time MVP.’

Chisholm will be a free agent soon with his Yankees contract due to expire and, even though he was booed by his own fans, he hopes to stay in New York. 

‘I grew up as a Yankee fan. Being from the Bahamas, watching Derek Jeter. I loved my time as a Yankee,’ he continued.

‘I had great times as a Yankee – had an All-Star year, had a Silver Slugger year. Who doesn’t want to stay with the team you have such great times with?’

The controversial fan interference call came nearly 30 years to the day after young Yankees fan Jeffrey Maier reached over the right-field wall at Yankee Stadium on a ball hit by Derek Jeter in the 1996 American League Championship Series against Baltimore.

With no replay system in place back then, the home team benefited from umpires calling it a home run instead of interference, and New York went on to win the World Series.

This time, the Yankees lost 4-3 by the very run that was taken off the board and had their season end in a three-game sweep.

With rookie George Lombard Jr. on base – Austin Wells would have been as well if not for a successful ABS challenge by the Rays, Volpe hit right-hander Griffin Jax’s 96mph sinker 357 feet to left field.

It was a matter of inches as to whether a fan reached over the fence and interfered with the ball or it would have cleared the wall without help.

The play was initially called a two-run homer that would have tied the score at 4-4 with two outs in the sixth.

But a lengthy video review determined a fan reached over the wall to catch the ball as Rays left fielder Victor Mesa Jr. tried in vain for a leaping grab.

The fan who reached out to catch the ball was escorted out of Yankee Stadium by security and police.