Aaron Boone Yankees wants ‘jail’ for fan who hit Red Sox’s Alex Verdugo with baseball

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NEW YORK – No stripes. Only cold metal bars.

That’s what Yankees coach Aaron Boone wants for the fan who threw a baseball from the stands and hit Red Sox left-back Alex Verdugo during a 3-1 win over Boston at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night.

“I hope he’s in prison now,” Boone said.

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Stadium security located a fan believed to be the culprit and expelled him from the park after hitting a ball thrown by Ferdogo in the back. Verdugo was standing in left field with his back to the stands when he was injured. Ferdogo turned to confront fans who mocked him with insults and middle fingers, according to a video clip circulated on social networking sites.

Verdugo and his teammates were pulled off the field by manager Alex Cora, and FOX cameras caught Verdugo hurling insults at coaches and players who tried to calm him down.

“It’s horrific, embarrassing, and unacceptable,” Boone said.

Boone said he texted Cora during the match to apologize to Ferdogo.

“It was just a bad attitude and if I was Alex Cora I would have done the same in terms of getting out and getting his guys off the field,” Boone said. “There is no place for that in this great game and in this great rivalry. Players should never feel the need to worry about anything like that. I’ve already reached out to Alex Cora, just apologizing to Alex Verdugo. This is just a terrible, bad, sad situation.” .sorry about that.”

The Yankees player started by Gerrit Cole said the scene “wasn’t very good”.

Cole said: “Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of players hitting things here. I suppose he’s OK. I hope he’s OK. That’s pretty awful. I hope it never happens again. There’s no place for that kind of thing and Alex is happy to pull them off.” off the field and made a statement by doing it and that was the right move.”

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