Yankees Jazz Chisholm thinks the Royals got lucky Aaron Boone disagrees

KANSAS CITY — Aaron Boone did not seem too concerned about Jazz Chisholm Jr.giving the Royals some bulletin board material.As part of an answer regarding the Yankees’ feelings about the ALDS being tied 1-1 after a Game 2 loss on Monday night, Chisholm indicated they remained confident about winning the series and rued their missed opportunities, saying the Royals “just got lucky.”When asked about that comment on Tuesday, Boone said he disagreed with the sentiment, but understood what Chisholm was trying to say given his comments in previous answers leading up to his claim.“I don’t think they got lucky, I think they did a lot of really good things and came in here and beat us [Monday] night,” Boone said Tuesday after a workout at Yankee Stadium before the Yankees flew to Kansas City.

“But I also looked at the line of questioning as it went.What he was referring to more was probably we did hit into some tough luck, there were some hard-hit balls.“So that line of questioning continued to where Jazz can be colorful sometimes.

In his head, because of the confidence he has in himself and our group, like, ‘Hey, they got lucky.’ But I don’t think that was the case.They obviously played really well.

They played two really good games against us and earned themselves a victory [Monday] night.”Follow The Post’s coverage of the Yankees in the postseason:Earlier in his postgame scrum, Chisholm did talk about the Yankees hitting into some tough luck and the Royals making strong defensive plays against them.Chisholm had the Yankees’ second hardest-hit ball of the night – a solo home run in the ninth inning off closer Lucas Erceg that brought them within 4-2 – though the hardest-hit ball was Giancarlo Stanton grounding into a double play.Overall, the Yankees hit 15 balls at exit velocities of 95 mph or harder (which Statcast defines as “hard-hit”) and went 5-for-15 on them, though four of them were singles.

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