Orioles’ Brandon Hyde was furious at Yankees ‘yelling at me’ before benches cleared
NY Post
Brandon Hyde didn’t like what he heard from the Yankees dugout and it set him off after watching his player get hit the helmet with a Clay Holmes sinker.
The Orioles manager, the only person ejected after the Orioles and Yankees benches cleared, began angrily shouting at the Bombers’ bench following outfielder Heston Kjerstad being struck with a 96.8 mph sinker with one out in the ninth inning at Camden Yards on Friday night.
“Just walking back and I hear stuff from [their] dugout, so I reacted the way I did,” Hyde said. “Saw they were pointing at me. … [I was] reacting to their coaches.”
Hyde appeared to spark the benches clearing as it appeared he said something from home plate to Holmes, who responded angrily.
As the dugouts emptied with Kjerstad heading to first, Hyde furiously charged the Yankees dugout, possibly at assistant hitting coach Casey Dykes, who was the first person on the field out of the Yankees side.
“It’s an emotional time at that time,” Hyde said. “My guy just got hit right in the ear. I’m upset and then I see their dugout they’re waving at me and yelling at me. I didn’t appreciate it at that time.”
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.