Jazz Chisholm Jr. Issues Warning After Incident During Yankees-Royals

In a slow motion replay of the play, YES Network cameras caught Chisholm mouthing a harsh warning. "Imma tell you one more time, if he tags me like that one more time, Imma smack the [expletive] out of him..." he appeared to say. 

Chisholm was later removed from the game due to neck tightness and a cut on his right thumb, but made it clear after the game how he felt about Garcia's tag. 

“I just feel like every time we have a problem, it’s always been him,” Chisholm told reporters in the locker room. “That’s the only reason I was so frustrated. And then to even see that he didn’t even have the ball for the way that he tagged me, it was just, I didn’t like it.”

Garcia, who was made aware of Chisholm's warning to "smack" him, had his own response to MLB.com after the game. "I’m waiting for it,” said Garcia. “It’s just talk.”

The feud between Chisholm Jr. and Garcia likely began after Game 2 of last year's ALDS, when Chisholm made the comment that the Royals "just got lucky" after their 4-2 win. 

It boiled over in Game 4, when Garcia slid hard into shortstop Anthony Volpe, who tagged Garcia out. Chisholm came over from third base in Volpe's defense, talking smack to Garcia about the slide and causing the benches to clear. 

Despite leaving Tuesday night's game, Chisholm is expected to be in the lineup Wednesday night when the Yankees face left-hander Kris Bubic and the Royals.