It all started in the bottom of the second inning when José Caballero correctly disputed that two strikes called by home plate umpire Mike Estabrook were balls, including a 3-2 pitch by Mariners starter Luis Castillo. Caballero touched his helmet for a challenge as he removed his left shin guard.
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Giancarlo Stanton also successfully challenged that a 1-2 slider from Castillo was below the strike zone, and then reached with a single. One batter later, Jazz Chisholm Jr. disputed that Castillo’s first-pitch slider was out of the zone, although he then struck out.
After that at-bat, Estabrook and New York manager Aaron Boone had a verbal exchange, and Boone remained in the dugout. The Mariners held a 1-0 lead after six innings thanks to Cole Young’s broken-bat RBI single in the second.
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