Aaron Boone responds to controversial Max Fried no-hit bid ending, stolen Judge HR

Max Fried of the New York Yankees lost a no-hitter in the sixth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays Sunday, which is noteworthy, but not exceptional. He might be the only pitcher in recent memory, though, to lose one retroactively after the sixth inning had passed.

After initially ruling a Chandler Simpson chopper that Paul Goldschmidt fumbled to be an error, umpires later decided that Simpson would've beaten Goldschmidt to the bag even if he'd handled it cleanly. So, even as Fried was surging into his seventh "no-hit" frame, the powers that be decided that his shot at history had already ended.

Thankfully, the Yankees won, and Fried was still brilliant. Doubly thankfully, he did allow a clean hit to Jake Mangum in the eighth inning, ending the controversy once and for all.

Following the game, Aaron Boone spoke on the strange sequence of events, though he maintained the umpires made the right call ... in that scenario, at least. There was another one he wasn't quite so keen on.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone responds forcefully to Aaron Judge losing a home run, defends Max Fried losing no-hitter

Now, if you really wanted to get Boone going in the aftermath, it was clear Fried's no-no wasn't the topic of conversation that burned him.

The Yankees' manager pulled a Jazz Chisholm and got ejected from the game after a low strike call to Aaron Judge. Something else was simmering throughout the conversation, however. An earlier long Judge fly ball was ruled foul, reviewed, and remained a nothingburger, despite clear evidence (in Boone's eyes) that Judge lost a homer.

Sure, the Yankees won in the end, but it was the principle of the thing. Every dinger matters, especially to someone on a Hall of Fame trajectory (Judge famously lost one already in 2017 when the umpiring crew inexplicably couldn't figure out where the top of the fence was).

The audacity indeed.

If not for one inning on Saturday, this would've been a pitch-perfect series and a four-game Yankees sweep. The Judge non-home run and the no-hitter ruiner are like the Saturday blemish in this individual game. Sure, the Yankees took home the victory, but ... it would be nice to get everything right, after all.