Yankees player gets dunked on as ‘all talk’ by feuding opponent as season crumbles

Nearly three weeks after the AL Division Series has concluded, Kansas City Royals infielder Maikel Garcia still has it out for the New York Yankees — and one player in particular.
As the Yankees were suffering their third consecutive loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series on Monday, Garcia took to X to jab third baseman Jazz Chisholm, who called Garcia a “sore loser” during their playoff series and the Royals “lucky” after a Game 2 win.
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“Jazz is all talk,” Garcia wrote in Spanish in a since-deleted X post. “Hasn’t had a hit.”
He followed that minutes later with another post (that is still live) in support of another Yankees player, seemingly in reference to Chisholm. “Put Oswaldo Cabrera in!”
Garcia’s X post was not entirely accurate — Chisholm has eight hits this postseason! — but the tenor of it was correct: Chisholm has struggled with a .170 average and .475 OPS in the playoffs, including an 0 for 4 night with a strikeout Monday.
Either way, Garcia seemingly enjoys dunking on the Yankees, who knocked off the Royals 3-1 in the ALDS, as much as possible. First, he responded to a Jomboy video — “oh my god carlos rodon” — that showed a pumped-up Rodón following a promising first inning in which he struck out the side, including Garcia, in Game 2.
“Don’t celebrate too early,” Garcia wrote late Monday night with the skull emoji. It was a refrain he shared on his Instagram Story, too, albeit with more skulls.
Then, Garcia was called a “sore loser” by Chisholm after the clinching Game 4 in response to a late slide into second base to break up a double play. It caused the benches to clear and saw Garcia and Chisholm jaw at each other.
“I just felt like [Garcia] tried to go and injure Volpe because he was being a sore loser,” Chisholm said after the game. “He was talking a lot on Instagram and Twitter and stuff. I do the same thing, but I’m not gonna go and try and injure somebody if they’re winning a game. I didn’t like that, so I told him, ‘We don’t do that.’”
With Game 4 on Tuesday and a sweep on the line, Garcia could add more animosity to this petty feud, especially because Chisholm said after a gut-punching Game 1 World Series loss that they’d “go out and win four games.”
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