{"id":616264,"date":"2026-03-10T05:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/616264\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:42:30","slug":"yankees-ben-rice-flashes-glove-at-first-base-with-diving-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/616264\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Ben Rice flashes glove at first base with diving catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations from Yankees spring training on Monday:<\/p>\n<p>Rice is cooking<\/p>\n<p>Ben Rice flashed a nice glove at first base, robbing Enmanuel Valdez of a base hit with a diving catch to his right in the third inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.32470893;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38728078\" width=\"782\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/new-york-yankees-first-baseman-121510766.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees first baseman Ben Rice fielding a ball during practice at Steinbrenner Field.\" class=\"wp-image-38728078\"  \/>Ben Rice Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Not again<\/p>\n<p>Jake Bird, who struggled badly after being acquired at last year\u2019s trade deadline from Colorado, gave up two more runs to the Pirates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>Giancarlo Stanton smashed a 424-foot homer to left-center. <\/p>\n<p>The shot was measured at 109 mph and was his first of the spring. <\/p>\n<p>But can he open a bag of Doritos?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s schedule<\/p>\n<p>Luis Gil gets the start against the Phillies at 1:05 p.m. in Clearwater, Fla., as the right-hander tries to regain the form he displayed as American League Rookie of the Year in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Observations from Yankees spring training on Monday: Rice is cooking Ben Rice flashed a nice glove at first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,731,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,151,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-616264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ben-rice","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-spring-training","17":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116203289058159073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}