KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The mutual dislike between New York Yankees third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Kansas City Royals third baseman Maikel Garcia continued Tuesday night, with Chisholm leaving the first game of the series between the teams with a sore neck after an attempted tag from Garcia.

On an attempted steal of third base during New York’s 10-2 victory, Garcia tried to apply a tag to Chisholm and knocked his helmet askew in the process. The throw from catcher Freddy Fermin caromed off Garcia’s glove. Chisholm popped up to one knee and was shown on the television broadcast saying to Yankees third base coach Luis Rojas: “I’m going to tell you one more time — if he tags me like that one more time, I’m going to smack the f— out of him.”

When asked after the game for his response to Chisholm’s comments, Garcia said, “I’m waiting for it,” and added, “It’s just talk.”

The beef between Chisholm and Garcia started last October, when Chisholm drew the ire of Kansas City fans by saying the Royals “got lucky” in their Game 2 American League Division Series win. Following the Yankees’ series-clinching Game 4 victory, Chisholm accused Garcia of trying to injure New York shortstop Anthony Volpe on a hard slide into second base, calling Garcia a “sore loser.”

The crowd of 30,017 at Kauffman Stadium on Tuesday showered Chisholm with boos in each of his at-bats, though he later admitted to appreciating the welcome.

“I went up to home plate today and told Fermin, ‘I kind of like it,'” Chisholm said. “I’m not at home, so I would rather walk up to something instead of walking up to no noise at all. I feel like on the road when road hitters come up and there’s nothing going on, I feel like it’s just, like, bland. Go ahead and boo me. You’ve giving me some music to at least walk up to.”

The music turned louder in the sixth inning, when Chisholm doubled and went for third. In addition to the neck injury, Chisholm suffered a cut on his right thumb. Despite the two injuries, Chisholm said, he expects to play tomorrow. For two more games, he’ll face a Royals team that in the clubhouse after the game was watching video of his comments following the tag.

“I was just trying to do my job, tag him,” Garcia said. “I missed the ball.”

Chisholm said he believed there was malice behind the tag and suggested it went back to last October.

“I just feel like every time we have a problem, it’s always been him,” Chisholm said. “I mean, that’s the only reason I was so frustrated. And then to even see that he didn’t even have the ball for the way that he tagged me. I didn’t like it.”

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels placed Chris Taylor on the 10-day injured list because of a broken left hand on Tuesday, an injury the utility man suffered when he was hit by a pitch a night earlier.

Taylor was hit by Tyler Ferguson‘s 95 mph fastball in the eighth inning of the Angels’ 7-4 victory over the Athletics on Monday. He finished the game in right field, but X-rays afterward revealed a fracture that manager Ron Washington said will sideline the 34-year-old veteran indefinitely.

A similar injury forced Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts to miss almost two months last season.

“He’s just been having some bad luck, and it just keeps happening,” Washington said of Taylor, who battled a neck injury for much of 2024. “So now all he can do is just get well. But in the game of baseball, things like that happen, and the next guy’s got to step up.”

Taylor, who was released by the Dodgers on May 18, hit .200 (6-for-30) with one homer, three doubles and three RBIs in 10 games with the Angels, but he seemed to be heating up at the plate. He had four hits, including a homer and two doubles, and three RBIs in a pair of weekend games against the Seattle Mariners.

Taylor was replaced on the active roster by utility man LaMonte Wade Jr., a veteran utility man who was acquired from the San Francisco Giants on Sunday for a player to be named or cash.

Wade, 31, batted .167 (24-for-144) with one homer, eight doubles and 15 RBIs in 50 games for the Giants this season. Though he has extensive big league experience at first base, Washington said Wade will play mostly corner outfield for the Angels.

DENVER — San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Chapman was placed on the 10-day injured list Tuesday with a sprained right hand after a weekend injury against Atlanta.

The move is retroactive to Monday. The Giants said Chapman would be examined by Dr. Steven Shin in Los Angeles on Friday. The club could then provide an update on when he might be ready to return.

Chapman hurt his hand in the eighth inning Sunday when he dived back to first base on a pickoff attempt.

Chapman, 32, is batting .243 with 12 home runs and 30 RBIs in 65 games during his second season with the Giants, who signed him in September to a $151 million, six-year contract through 2030.

He hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning of a 3-2 win over the Braves on Saturday.

San Francisco recalled infielder Christian Koss from Triple-A Sacramento on Tuesday ahead of the series opener at Colorado.

The Giants were riding a five-game winning streak — each of those victories came by one run, and they have played seven consecutive one-run games overall.