One other evening, one other poor exhibiting on the plate for DJ LeMahieu.
LeMahieu went 0-for-5 in a 9-5, 12-inning loss to Cleveland on Tuesday in The Bronx.
He’s in one other rut, this one 2-for-19, because the Yankees nonetheless await the return of Anthony Rizzo from the fractured proper forearm that’s saved him out since mid-June.
“It was a troublesome evening,’’ Aaron Boone mentioned of the long-slumping LeMahieu. “He had some alternatives.”
Boone added that whereas LeMahieu has “proven some flashes, it’s been robust. It’s been tough.”
LeMahieu began in opposition to left-handed Matthew Boyd on Tuesday regardless of only a .406 OPS in opposition to southpaws on the season.
With Ben Rice additionally struggling on the plate, the Yankees will “maintain grinding with” LeMahieu whereas they see if Rizzo can get again.
Rizzo took swings previous to Tuesday’s sport in opposition to right-hander Ian Hamilton, who was pitching a simulated sport in his comeback from a proper lat pressure.
“I believed he appeared actually good on the market swinging the bat immediately,’’ Boone mentioned of the primary baseman. “He feels actually good. … The most important factor for him is he can do the whole lot now at full-steam forward, and feels nice doing it. The power is there, it’s simply once more, simply getting that full therapeutic to the place if he falls, will get himself in hassle, or one thing like that.”
Boone mentioned there may be not one other scan scheduled for Rizzo’s arm.
Within the final scan, his arm confirmed indicators of therapeutic however wasn’t fully one hundred pc.
“If that factor was completely healed, like the place he’s at proper now [at the plate], he’d be on the market taking part in,” Boone mentioned. “However we’ve received to make it possible for factor heals to a sure degree.”
And it’s straightforward to know why the Yankees want Rizzo again — even when he wasn’t hitting all that properly earlier than he received harm.
Since Rizzo went down, the Yankees have gotten the second-worst manufacturing of any crew within the majors from their first basemen.
Utilizing largely the mixture of LeMahieu and Rice, the Yankees entered Tuesday with a .593 OPS since June 17.
Solely the Mariners are worse.
And with Anthony Volpe in a horrible hunch for a lot of the previous two months, Gleyber Torres not hitting properly for a lot of the season and Jazz Chisholm Jr. on the IL with a left elbow sprain, the Yankees haven’t gotten a lot offense out of their infield for a hefty chunk of the yr.
Juan Soto hit his thirty fifth homer within the first, which matches the career-high he set final season with the Padres.
Aaron Decide has 4 homers in eight video games and has 45 on the season, as he begins to shut in on his AL document of 62 dwelling runs he set in 2022.
The duo went back-to-back within the first inning Tuesday. It was the fifth time they’ve hit consecutive dwelling runs this season, one shy of the franchise document set by Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira in 2009.
Hamilton mentioned he felt good in his simulated sport and plans to pitch in a minor league rehab sport Saturday after which resolve the following step.
Cody Poteet (triceps) and Lou Trivino (Tommy John) continued rehab assignments with scoreless outings at Double-A Somerset.
