For a few days now, Yankees manager Aaron Boone has talked about the frustrations surrounding the team. Their propensity to lose to bad teams resulted in an unusually agitated Boone. For the most part, he kept it in check, only flashing glimpses of it to the media.
Then he encountered home plate umpire Nic Lentz.
In the fifth inning of Friday night’s game against the Tigers, Boone took umbrage with Lentz’s inconsistent strike zone. After repeated chirping from the dugout, Boone got ejected. That resulted in him taking the field, where he proceeded to have a meltdown that conjured up memories of Billy Martin.