Matthews: Javy Vazquez showed, voiced disappointment after being pulled in fifth with the lead

Javier…bar dem clubhouse doors!

Joe Girardi no longer trusts Javier Vazquez to get even one more out in the fifth inning of a game the New York Yankees are winning by two runs.

And Vazquez no longer respects the manager enough to hide his displeasure until he reaches the sanctuary of the clubhouse.

All this was on display in full of 47,478 spectators at Yankee Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Even after the Yankees had gone on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-5, and having had nearly two hours to cool off, Vazquez was still steaming.

“I was disappointed, really disappointed,” an uncharacteristically tight-lipped Vazquez said in an otherwise upbeat clubhouse. “It could have been a better outing, but the fact that I got taken out early, that wasn’t good.”

When Girardi came out to get Vazquez, with runners on first and second, two out and the Yankees holding a 5-3 lead in the fifth, the veteran right-hander threw both his hands skyward in a gesture of agitated disbelief. It was clear he was muttering something as Girardi came to take the ball—although afterward he said he couldn’t remember saying anything—and he didn’t walk off the field so much as stalk off it.

...Vazquez’s face had the empty look of a man who has suddenly come to realize that his days with the company are numbered, that his boss no longer has faith in his ability to do his job and whatever future he may have hoped to have there is now in ruins.