Jazz Chisholm Jr. calls out Red Sox no-name on Instagram after Yankees trash talk

The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have a rubber match on Sunday Night Baseball, and it just got even more intense with trash talk taking place this weekend. Who are we thanking for the entertainment, though? We've never heard of him. But Jazz Chisholm Jr. just helped us out.

On Saturday, Red Sox pitcher Hunter Dobbins, who gets the start on Sunday, decided to take things up a notch — we're just not quite sure he has the right to speak like this yet. Whatever the case, he did, and now we're approaching heightened rivalry tensions. Somebody needed to do it, we guess.

Dobbins set his boundaries with the Yankees-Sox rivalry and said "if the Yankees were the last team to give me a contract, I'd retire." Dobbins said his dad was a die-hard Red Sox fan, but growing up in Texas, he didn't have the same affinity for Boston. He primarily watched the Rangers and Astros, but he did admit that he eventually hated the Yankees having watched the Red Sox with his father.

OK, so ... a guy we've never heard of, who grew up in Texas and isn't a Red Sox fan ... despises the Yankees and wants to put a target on his back after just nine career MLB games after his debut in 2025?

Sure! We'll take it. And apparently Chisholm will, too, after the Yankees star called out Dobbins on his Instagram story.

"Free smoke. See ya at 7." Dobbins and his 4.06 ERA and 1.33 WHIP better watch out! The league's best offense is on deck.

Chisholm was out of the lineup Saturday in a scheduled day off shortly after his return from an oblique injury. For a second there, his completely misinterpreted "70%" comments were believed to be the reason he was on the pine, that wasn't the case at all (even though he ended up playing the final three innings). For everybody out there who doesn't understand the game of baseball and what Chisholm meant, he's managed to slow the game down a bit after coming out of the gates like a bull in a china shop. He's not playing with 70% effort. He definitely could've made that more clear, but we're not sure how anybody with proper knowledge of the sport didn't understand what he was saying.

Anyway, Dobbins, great to meet you. We didn't see you over there. The former eighth-round draft pick, who hasn't pitched beyond the fifth inning since May 9, will battle Carlos Rodón on the biggest regular season stage in MLB. Hope he's ready to back up the unprompted smack talk.

We've seen this type of behavior backfire terribly on the Yankees. We'd hate to see it happen to the floundering Red Sox.