Friday\u2019s 5-3 loss to the Rays<\/a>, they ran out of challenges by the top of the fifth inning. Jazz Chisholm Jr. had an unsuccessful tap on an 0-0 count with one out and no one on in the fourth inning of a 3-2 game and then an inning later, Jos\u00e9 Caballero challenged the first pitch of the frame and was proved wrong. Saturday, Yankees hitters didn\u2019t challenge once.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re told to be aggressive and use them,\u201d catcher Austin Wells said. \u201cI think you can always hindsight and look back and think, \u2018Oh man, I should have maybe not used it there.\u2019 But they tell us to be aggressive and use it when we think it\u2019s a ball. There\u2019s been some really, really close ones that haven\u2019t gone our way. But I think that\u2019s just the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boone has in fact preached being aggressive to his team, but he has also said he wants them to get to a place where understanding leverage becomes instinctual \u2014 which is where he seemed to disagree with Friday\u2019s challenges.<\/p>\n
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Austin Wells celebrates after hitting a solo home run in the second inning of the Yankees\u2019 5-4, 10-inning loss to the Rays on April 11, 2026. Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
\u201cWe, just like the umpires, are going to be needing to make adjustments throughout the year,\u201d said Ben Rice, who had a pair of bad challenges during the series against the Marlins. \u201cOf course having understanding of situations, when to challenge and when not to. But at the end of the day, it\u2019s just kind of a gut feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n
During spring training, Boone said he was direct with players in telling them they had either made a good or bad challenge. That has carried over into the regular season, as he indicated Saturday he had made his feelings known with Caballero (in a light way) after his rough one Friday night.<\/p>\n
Overall, Yankees hitters entered Saturday 10-for-23 in ABS challenges \u2014 a success rate of 43.5 percent, which was the ninth lowest in the majors. Their 13 unsuccessful challenges were the most in the majors, but their 10 successful challenges were also the second most.<\/p>\n
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Chisholm and Caballero both had three unsuccessful challenges, though Caballero was 2-for-5 while Chisholm was 1-for-4. <\/p>\n
Trent Grisham led the club with three successful challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cI predicted all this coming out of [spring training] \u2014 there\u2019s going to be noisy weeks where it\u2019s like, \u2018Ohh,\u2019 \u201d Boone said. \u201cThe last thing I want is our guys to get gun-shy. I want us to be smart. I want us to continue to learn where it becomes reactionary, instinctive. There\u2019s going to be weeks where you have not a great umpire, not a great receiver back there that you have a lot of opportunities to challenge. There\u2019s going to be nights when you don\u2019t. There\u2019s going to be nights when you have a few and it doesn\u2019t fall in a leverage spot. So there\u2019s a lot of things that goes into the noise of the day to day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re going to be good at this. We\u2019ve had a few this week that haven\u2019t been great. But it also had nothing to do with us losing a game [Friday] night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 One week into the season, the Yankees looked like they were going to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1797,5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-673925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116390663047912233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}