Shoeless Jazz: Yanks star loses both cleats, scores

NEW YORK -- Shoeless Jazz crossed the plate, a period aft Shoeless Joe.

Both of Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s cleats flew disconnected his feet arsenic helium scored from 2nd basal successful the New York Yankees' 4-2 triumph implicit the Baltimore Orioles successful an antithetic greeting commencement Sunday.

"I was truthful sweaty. My socks were wet. Everything had conscionable slipped consecutive out," helium said.

Chisholm doubled twice, including a go-ahead, two-run thrust disconnected the right-center tract partition successful the eighth inning, past slid into catcher Gary Sánchez for the last tally arsenic New York enactment the footwear connected the different foot, truthful to speak. The AL East-leading Yankees won their 2nd consecutive aft losing 7 of 8 successful a crippled that volition beryllium remembered for Chisholm's size 10½ Jordan 1 spikes.

Shoeless Joe supposedly was fixed his nickname connected June 6, 1908, playing semi-pro shot for the autarkic Greenville Spinners against the Anderson Electricians. New cleats had caused blisters, and helium took them disconnected and deed a agelong location tally successful the seventh inning.

Jackson won a World Series rubric with the Chicago White Sox successful 1917, past was among 8 players connected the alleged "Black Sox" who were banned for beingness aft they were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 Series to Cincinnati successful speech for wealth from gamblers. He finished with a .356 mean successful 13 large league seasons.

Asked whether helium should beryllium called Shoeless Jazz, Chisholm responded: "Wow. Is that however Shoeless Joe got his name? He ran retired of his shoe?" When told Jackson earned nickname successful the 1910s, Chisholm quipped: "Oh, truthful helium wasn't wearing shoes."

"I saw a batch of firsts," Yankees skipper Aaron Judge said. "11:30 crippled to a feline losing some his shoes. I've seen 1 cleat benignant of moving but not some similar that. That was awesome."

Chisholm is hitting .350 (21-for-60) with 11 RBIs since returning from a strained close oblique that caused him to miss 28 games. He raised his mean to .242.

"That's what I unrecorded for. That's however I grew up playing shot successful precocious school, Little League," helium said. "I don't consciousness similar it's nary request to change."

New York trailed 2-0 erstwhile Chisholm deed a two-out treble disconnected Dean Kremer and headed for location connected DJ LeMahieu's azygous to left.

"They accidental he's the champion footwear tier. I didn't recognize it until helium really did. It took maine similar a infinitesimal to instrumentality disconnected my shoes conscionable now."

Jazz Chisholm Jr. connected asking rookie Jasson Domínguez to necktie his laces aft putting connected caller socks and his spikes

Chisholm's near footwear popped disconnected betwixt 3rd and home. Seeing rookie catcher Maverick Handley determination to his near for Colton Cowser's propulsion up the third-base line, Chisholm tried to veer to debar contact. He caught the catcher with his close limb arsenic Cowser was spun to the crushed and the shot popped retired of his mitt. Chisholm fell past the sheet arsenic the close footwear was jarred disconnected and from his knees slapped a manus crossed the plate.

"He had ungraded each implicit his look erstwhile I walked retired determination to get him. Looked similar glitter connected his face," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "We were each benignant of screaming."

After helium reached the dugout, Chisholm stretched retired with his stockinged feet connected the bench. He enactment connected a caller brace of socks and past his spikes, and Chisholm asked rookie Jasson Domínguez to necktie the laces.

"They accidental he's the champion footwear tier," Chisholm recalled successful the postgame clubhouse. "I didn't recognize it until helium really did. It took maine similar a infinitesimal to instrumentality disconnected my shoes conscionable now."

Baltimore led 2-1 successful the eighth erstwhile Ben Rice singled starring disconnected against Bryan Baker for his 3rd hit. Giancarlo Stanton singled to enactment runners astatine the corners, and Paul Goldschmidt pinch ran for his chap erstwhile MVP -- the archetypal pinch-running quality of Goldschmidt's large league career, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Baker fell down 3-0 successful the number and near a belt-high fastball implicit the plate. He drove it 384 feet disconnected the mediate of the wall.

"I wasn't going to plaything if it wasn't a fastball," Chisholm said,

Goldschmidt, 37, slid successful conscionable up of Sánchez's tag. Chisholm was a insignificant leaguer successful Arizona's strategy erstwhile Goldschmidt starred for the Diamondbacks.

"He was the feline that everybody truly watched doing baserunning," Chisholm said. "Even erstwhile I got to Miami, helium was inactive the blueprint of however to tally the bases."

Goldschmidt took pridefulness successful his baserunning.

"It's thing that wasn't secondary down hitting and defense," helium said.

Chisholm took 3rd connected the propulsion and LeMahieu followed with a chopper to shortstop Gunnar Henderson, who threw home. Chisholm slid headfirst and was astatine archetypal called retired by umpire Jansen Visconti, who didn't recognize Sánchez dropped the shot arsenic helium applied the tag.

His archetypal run, however, was the 1 that volition unrecorded connected successful replays for the flying footwear.

"Go retired there. Keep playing similar that," Stanton had told him. "You don't request them."