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Yankees manager Aaron Boone was given a one-game suspension following his latest ejection and admitted his arguments may have created an image in the minds of umpires.

“Well, I think I’ve earned that reputation,” he said Friday before Major League Baseball suspended him for one game and fined him.

Michael Hill, MLB’s senior vice president of field operations, made the announcement. MLB said the discipline was “for his recent conduct toward Major League Baseball umpires, including actions following his ejection from Thursday night’s game against the Baltimore Orioles.”

Boone sat out Friday night’s series opener against San Diego, when bench coach Carlos Mendoza took over as manager.

Boone was ejected for the fourth time in the majors this season, the most among major league managers, when he got angry at Edwin Moscoso’s strike zone during a 3-1 loss. Boone held up four fingers as he argued in the middle of the third inning, indicating that Boone thought the plate umpire missed four pitches.

Boone was also angry that Moscoco walked away during the argument and first base umpire Chris Guccione, the crew chief, stepped between the two when Boone tried to re-engage Moscoso. Boone could have spat at a referee while he was arguing.

“I think it’s leading to a quick hook? Not necessarily,” Boone said. “Maybe I’m delusional and that I did more than I think. I don’t think that’s the case. But no, I don’t think the referees attack me, as if certain things weren’t Tolero. I think they treat me fairly.”

Boone’s four ejections this year are one more than Cincinnati’s David Bell and St. Louis’ Oliver Marmol. Boone led the majors with nine last season, when no other manager had more than five.

“I think there’s probably an occasional bias,” Boone said. “We are human beings. I’m sure some people don’t like to hear from me.”

Boone was ejected against Cleveland on April 12, against Toronto on May 15 and against Cincinnati on Sunday.

His 30 ejections rank sixth among current coaches, though his 720 games before Friday were far fewer than those with the most ejections: Bruce Bochy (78 in 4,081 games), Bob Melvin (55 in 2,830), Terry Francona (47 in 3509), Bud Black (35 in 2283) and Buck Showalter (34 in 3282).

Boone averages one ejection every 25 games, a much faster rate than Bochy and Melvin (52), Black (65), Francona (75) and Showalter (97).

Bell had 23 ejections in 596 games, an average of one every 26 games.

“I don’t like that it’s happened multiple times this week, and I’d like to not get ejected and hopefully I can start a long streak of not getting ejected,” Boone said. “I’m not necessarily afraid to do it, but no, I don’t mean to get kicked out and I don’t want to. And I hope I don’t for a while.”

Associated Press report.

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