surgery<\/a> Oct. 15 to remove loose bodies in his left elbow and shave a bone spur. His return got pushed back after he dealt with tightness in his left hamstring in late March.<\/p>\nThat followed a 2025 season in which he went 18-9 with a 3.09 ERA and earned his third career All-Star Game selection. He may need some time to regain that form.<\/p>\n
Rod\u00f3n walked the leadoff batter in each of the first two innings but otherwise looked impressive while striking out four over the first three frames.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought overall his stuff was good,\u201d Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cHis fastball ticked up, being up here. I thought he had a really good changeup and some good sliders to get some swing-and-miss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boone called the high walk total the \u201cbugaboo\u201d for Rod\u00f3n. That proved costly in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n
Rod\u00f3n, 33, started that inning by walking William Contreras and Gary S\u00e1nchez and hitting Andrew Vaughn with a pitch, loading the bases. Garrett Mitchell brought home a run with a sacrifice fly before Rod\u00f3n allowed a two-run, two-out single to Blake Perkins, who is hitting just .122 this season.<\/p>\n
He left the game with two men on and one out in the fifth.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fun being back out there,\u201d Rod\u00f3n said. \u201cObviously would have liked to perform better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rod\u00f3n\u2019s return came on the final day of a disappointing weekend for the Yankees, who were swept for just the second time all season. Milwaukee\u2019s Brice Turang ended the game with a walk-off homer off David Bednar.<\/p>\n
Although the Yankees lead the American League in scoring, they totaled just six runs this weekend as Ben Rice went 0 for 13 in his return from a bruised hand that caused him to miss four games, Spencer Jones was 1 for 9 with five strikeouts in his first three big league hames.<\/p>\n
The good news for the Yankees is that Rod\u00f3n\u2019s arrival should boost a starting rotation that already was perhaps the best in the major leagues.<\/p>\n
Yankees starting pitchers entered Sunday with a league-best 3.01 ERA in 40 games. Counting Sunday\u2019s game, Yankees starters have allowed three earned runs or fewer in 19 of their last 22 outings.<\/p>\n
Cam Schlitter (5-1) owns an MLB-leading 1.35 ERA to top a rotation that also has featured Max Fried (4-2, 2.91), Will Warren (4-1, 3.46) and Ryan Weathers (2-2, 3.03). The Yankees also have 2023 Cy Young Award winner and six-time All-Star Gerrit Cole<\/a> working his way back from Tommy John surgery after missing the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Carlos Rod\u00f3n\u2019s seven-month recovery from elbow surgery apparently didn\u2019t do anything to hinder the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[1797,1749,5,731,9114,136,3800,16007,17989,1100,463,1127,108,843,59,4280,4,256,5786,1690,10217,62,1073,5055,185,5971,9015,772,3801,1519],"class_list":["post-695995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-aaron-boone","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-blake-perkins","tag-brewers","tag-brice-turang","tag-cam-schlitter","tag-carlos-rodn","tag-david-bednar","tag-garrett-mitchell","tag-gary-sanchez","tag-max-fried","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-spencer-jones","tag-sports","tag-tommy-john","tag-wi-state-wire","tag-will-warren","tag-william-contreras","tag-wisconsin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116555309640781595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695995","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=695995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}