Fans, who in general favor a war general over a nice guy in the dugout, loved it.
Aaron Boone did not. There are not many who despised what the Yankees manager did Friday more than Boone himself.
“You never want to do that,” Boone said a day after benching Gleyber Torres mid-game for admiring what he believed to be a home run, turning a possible double into a single.
It is rare in MLB today that a manager pulls a player who gives less than 100 percent effort — for many reasons: