Yankees' Josh Donaldson is in hot water after his disrespectful comments to White Sox's Tim Anderson. Everything to know:
confronted the Yankees slugger at home plate. Both teams cleared the benches and began pushing and shoving one another while Anderson’s teammates held him back. After the game, Chicago’s manager“He just made a disrespectful comment,” Anderson later revealed. “Basically was trying to call me Jackie Robinson, like, ‘What’s up Jackie?’ I don’t play like that. I don’t really play at all.. But he made the comment, and it was disrespectful. I don’t think it was called for.
The third baseman later confirmed that while he had said that to Anderson, he was “just joking” around. “All right, so first inning, I called him ‘Jackie,'” Donaldson said at the time. “[In] 2019,[and] said that he’s the new Jackie Robinson of baseball. He’s gonna bring back fun to the game. [In] 2019 when I played for [the Atlanta Braves], we actually joked about that on the game.”
He continued: “I don’t know what’s changed — and I’ve said it to him in year’s past. Not in any manner than just joking around for the fact that he called himself Jackie Robinson. If something has changed from that, my meaning of that — has not any term trying to be racist by any fact of the matter. It was just off of an interview of what he called himself.”
Donaldson was absent from the Yankees and White Sox double header the following night. Shortly before the suspension was announced, the New York team said that he
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