The Cubs' Ian Happ, left, is called out at first base by umpire Adam Hamari in the third inning against the St. Louis Cardinals on July 6, 2025, in Chicago. (AP file photo)

NEW YORK — Jazz Chisholm Jr. thought plate umpire Adam Hamari should have asked for help on a check-swing strikeout that led to the New York Yankees’ second baseman being ejected from Sunday night’s 5-4 loss to Boston in 10 innings that completed a four-game sweep by the Red Sox.

Hamari is a Marquette native, having graduated from Marquette Senior High School and Northern Michigan University, and now lives with his family in Colorado.

In the sixth inning, Chisholm struck out on a half swing at Sonny Gray’s curveball in the dirt while the Yankees were still being no-hit.

He was upset Hamari called him out without asking third base umpire Clint Vondrak for help.

But it wasn’t Hamari who gave Chisholm the heave-ho, it was first base umpire Todd Tichenor after the Yankees’ player spiked his helmet in the dirt behind home plate while New York manager Aaron Boone talked to Hamari.

“All I thought was that he should have asked for help and that was basically it,” Chisholm said before the Yankees opened a three-game series against Detroit on Monday night. “I turned away, slammed my helmet and got ejected. I feel like it should have been an equipment fine, but he ejected me.”

After the ejection, former teammate Anthony Rizzo said on the NBC national broadcast that Chisholm needed to be smarter and getting tossed “shows a little bit of immaturity.”

“He played 15 years in the big leagues, he’s entitled to his opinion,” Chisholm said of Rizzo, who ended his career in 2024 with the Yankees.

Following the loss, Chisholm did not speak with reporters but did talk to Boone after getting tossed for the seventh time in his career.

“I never want our players getting ejected, but it does happen from time to time,” Boone said. “I would say with us it rarely happens. That’s why I try and inject myself into it more often than not. So just understanding they gave me an opportunity to say your piece and let’s leave it alone and keep moving.”

Hamari, 43, worked last fall’s World Series, calling balls and strikes behind home plate in Game 6 as part of the rotation of a seven-man crew. He also worked in the divisional series in those playoffs, the second round, in the Yankees-Toronto Blue Jays series.

After becoming a minor league umpire, he got his first taste of Major League Baseball in 2012 in a spring training game, and worked numerous major league games as a part-time MLB substitute through 2016. Then in 2017, he was promoted to full-time status in the majors, where he has been since.