Jazz Chisholm's on-field message to Red Sox broadcaster was perfect response to Aaron Boone's challenge

The goal of Major League Baseball is to score more runs than your opponent, piling on as many as possible to ease the job of your pitchers. In the postseason, the value of each individual run rises tenfold. That is to say if Jazz Chisholm Jr. was smart enough to steal second and third base with a six-run lead in a regular-season Yankees-Red Sox rivalry game, he was certainly keen enough to do it again in the postseason.

When Chisholm Jr. sprinted around the bags in the four-game series finale back in August, Red Sox radio announcer Will Flemming called him "bush league" and implored the lefty reliever on the mound to both drill Austin Wells and go punch Chisholm. With an 8-2 lead on Wednesday in the seventh inning of Game 2, Chisholm Jr. saw the exact same opportunity - and did the exact same thing.

Did Flemming ever return from his nebulous "planned absence," which conveniently came as soon as the Sox returned home from that controversial series? If so, would love to hear his thoughts on this!

Jazz Chisholm Jr. responded to Aaron Boone's plea by tying a bow on Yankees-Red Sox

Chisholm Jr. had a ton of fun on the field Wednesday night, but he's on record that he doesn't enjoy platooning, especially in Game 1 of a heated playoff series. Knowing he planned to keep him off his feet against a lefty in Payton Tolle, Aaron Boone texted him ahead of time, demanding his attention and asking him to rise to the challenge.

"Hey, you might be the most important person in the building tonight. We need you to be ready to go for the biggest spot, potentially," Boone texted Chisholm Jr. prior to Game 1, per Chris Kirschner of The Athletic.

He wasn't needed in the 9-0 victory, but you could certainly read that as Boone making sure that Chisholm Jr.'s antenna was up from the jump, and that he planned to be himself when called upon. We knew it wouldn't, but the ugliness in Flemming's voice at the end of the Yankees and Red Sox's final regular season matchup did not deter Chisholm Jr. from continuing to play through the whistle. That's what the postseason is all about. Hell, that's what every opportunity to take the field is all about.

If Flemming didn't learn that lesson in his first 47 years on earth, or back in August, he certainly should've learned it on Wednesday. If he was still watching at that point. After all, he's on record that a six-run lead is apparently game over in his book.

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