Brett Gardner Left Some Gnarly Damage on the Yankees Dugout With His Bat
By Michael Luciano
During the first part of Thursday's doubleheader, New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner acted out what everyone who has lived in a dorm room or apartment beneath someone who gets a little too noisy does every weekend.
Gardner decided to give the Yankee Stadium dugout a piece of his mind following a questionable strike three call, slamming his bat on the roof several times. A day afterwards, the dugout appears to have suffered some permanent damage.
Gardner wasn't exactly the biggest fan of how this game was called, as evidenced by some choice words for home plate umpire Brennan Miller before his brief vandalism outburst.
After DJ LeMahieu went down 0-2 thanks to another strike call that could have gone either way (it was outside), manager Aaron Boone had finally had enough, and exploded on Miller. That prompted a Boone ejection and one-game suspension on what proved to be a very volatile afternoon in the Bronx.
Even in a doubleheader during the middle of July, Gardner is wearing his emotions on his sleeve and going 110% like it's the World Series. Sorry to any dugout ceilings that get in his way.