After playing an instrumental role in a 9-6 win over the Red Sox on Friday, Jazz Chisholm Jr. said something that might strike some as strange coming from the mouth of a professional athlete.

While Chisholm was finishing up his rehabbing from almost five weeks of missed games with a strained oblique, he was convinced to hit the breaks and slow his game down to 70-percent max effort. Has this EVER been done before?

New York Yankees third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. returned to the lineup in style this week, mashing two homers and six RBI over his first four games back from an oblique injury. All that did was earn him a spot on the bench.