Yankees star Jazz Chisholm booed during World Baseball Classic in Great Britain-Mexico game

New York Yankees prima infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. was booed during introductions for the World Baseball Classic connected Friday, arsenic helium represented Team Great Britain. 

Chisholm was the lone subordinate to beryllium booed during introductions of Great Britain's crippled against Mexico, which took spot successful Houston, per USA Today's Bob Nightengale. Chisholm was besides jeered each clip helium came to the plate.

The crushed for the boos is unknown.

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Jazz Chisholm Jr. #3 of Team Great Britain poses for a photograph during the Team Great Britain photograph time astatine American Family Fields of Phoenix connected Monday, March 2, 2026, successful Phoenix, Arizona.  (Norm Hall/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Chisholm chose to play for Great Britain due to the fact that helium was calved successful The Bahamas, a erstwhile British colony and existent Commonwealth realm, which makes him eligible nether tourney rules. 

Chisholm incited disapproval aggregate times during the 2025 play portion playing for the Yankees. He was initially suspended for 1 crippled and fined by MLB for posting "Not adjacent f---ing close!!!!!" connected X, appearing to notation a determination by an umpire to eject him successful an April game. The one-game suspension was overturned connected appeal, but a good remained.

The infielder was mocked connected societal media aft a head-scratching baserunning blunder against his erstwhile team, the Miami Marlins, successful August. 

Chisholm was connected archetypal basal successful the apical of the 2nd inning with Paul Goldschmidt up astatine bat. The Yankees’ batter popped up to Marlins’ 2nd baseman Xavier Edwards. Chisholm was excessively acold disconnected archetypal basal and got caught napping. Edwards past threw the shot to archetypal for the inning-ending treble play.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. #3 of Great Britain reacts anterior to the 2026 World Baseball Classic Pool B crippled against Mexico astatine Daikin Park connected March 6, 2026, successful Houston, Texas.  (Kenneth Richmond/Getty Images)

"What was Chisholm thinking?" Yankees play-by-play antheral Michael Kay asked.

Chishlom said afterward helium wouldn’t person changed anything, adding that helium was trying to beryllium assertive connected the basepaths by forcing Edwards to perchance marque an error. He aboriginal did not commencement Game 1 of the Yankees' Wild Card bid against the Boston Red Sox erstwhile the postseason began. 

When reporters approached Chisholm successful the Yankee clubhouse aft the game, helium hardly paid them immoderate mind, keeping his backmost turned for astir the full duration of his media league and shuffling things successful his locker.

"We gotta bash immoderate we gotta bash to win, right? That’s however I look astatine it," helium said begrudgingly.

After the Yankees' playoff exit successful a divisional circular nonaccomplishment to the Toronto Blue Jays, Chisholm received backlash for a photograph showing him partying with 50 Cent successful a New York nightclub.

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Jul 19, 2025; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) connected 3rd basal against the Atlanta Braves successful the sixth inning astatine Truist Park. (Brett Davis-Imagn Images)

Prior to the commencement of past season, past March, Chisholm raised eyebrows erstwhile helium declared that shot is simply a "White Sport." 

"I don’t privation to accidental this. Baseball is simply a White sport. I consciousness similar White radical knock everything that a Black antheral does. Black men are outspoken. They accidental what’s connected their minds," helium told The Athletic. "The unwritten rules of shot are White. And I ever broke the unwritten rules of baseball."

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