It didn’t take long for the “overrated” chants to rain down on Jazz Chisholm Jr. when he stepped up to the plate in the fifth inning of the Yankees’ game against the Guardians on Tuesday night. The chants came early and often from a raucous “tarps off” section that had formed in the upper deck down Progressive Field’s third-base line. And in that instance, the tarps off folks won, as Chisholm struck out on a fastball from Slade Cecconi -- a pitch that he admitted he overswung on because he was trying to hit it out. But little did those fans know that the chant would help unlock Chisholm, who retreated back to the Yankees’ dugout and decided he would use Aaron Judge’s slightly heavier bat during his next at-bat. “I swung above a high fastball, that never happens,” Chisholm said. And that bat helped Chisholm get his lick back three innings later with a towering Statcast-projected 360-foot go-ahead home run off Guardians reliever Tim Herrin that helped push the Yankees to a 3-2 win. “I love it,” Chisholm said. “I feel like those were the loudest chants we heard. It was great.” Manager Aaron Boone also said he heard the chants from the Yankees’ first-base dugout. “It made it even better,” Boone said with a smile.
