What Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm and Royals’ Maikel Garcia said after latest incident
The Royals and Yankees will meet two more times this week at Kauffman Stadium, and judging by New York’s 10-2 win on Tuesday night, there is a tension between the clubs.
Specifically between the Royals’ Maikel Garcia and Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm.
During last year’s American League Division Series, those two traded barbs and were in the middle of a benches-clearing disturbance between the teams. That came after Garcia felt that Anthony Volpe had tagged him in the face.
A tag play in Tuesday’s game seemed to reignite the feud.
Chisholm swiped third base in the sixth inning and clearly was not happy with the tag attempt from Garcia.
Lip-readers believe Chisholm told Yankees third-base coach Luis Rojas: “Imma tell you one more time ... Imma tell you one more time ... if he tags me like that again, imma smack the (heck) outta him.”
Some Royals players were watching that video in the locker room following Tuesday’s game.
Garcia was asked about that threat.
“I’m waiting for it,” Garcia said, and added: “It’s just talk.”
Garcia explained what happened on the play.
“I was just trying to do my job, tag him,” Garcia said. “I missed the ball.”
Garcia was then asked if there was bad blood between him and Chisholm.
“I don’t know,” he said. “I’m just trying to play the game and win the games.”
Chisholm, who left the game because of neck stiffness, was asked if he was frustrated by the tag play.
“I mean, yeah, I just feel like every time we have a problem, it’s always been him,” Chisholm said in reference to Garcia. “I mean, like, that’s the only reason I was so frustrated. And then to see that he didn’t even have the ball for the way that he tagged me, I didn’t like it. You know what I mean? So, just frustrated.”
This story was originally published June 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM.
