{"id":746233,"date":"2026-07-08T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/746233\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:42:15","slug":"yankees-news-ben-rices-dad-to-pitch-to-him-in-home-run-derby-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/746233\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Ben Rice\u2019s dad to pitch to him in Home Run Derby debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN<\/a>: The All-Star Game and Home Run Derby are upon us, and after finding out he\u2019ll be making his first Midsummer Classic, Ben Rice also accepted an invite to participate in the derby. The 27-year-old enters play today with 25 dingers on the season and has continued raking after a breakout campaign last year. Rice announced<\/a> that he\u2019ll have his dad, Dan Rice\u2014who threw for Brown University in the 1980s\u2014be his pitcher for the derby.<\/p>\n

The Rays\u2019 Junior Caminero is the only other announced participant so far, but as outlined, there\u2019s a good case for either to win even before knowing who else will be involved. The last Yankee to take home the trophy was captain Aaron Judge at Marlins Park during his memorable 2017 rookie campaign. (Remember when he broke physics<\/a> and hit the roof? Good times.)<\/p>\n

MLB.com | Bryan Hoch<\/a>: A franchise as storied as the Yankees is bound to have a lot of records, but sometimes they\u2019re on the bad side of history. During this recent skid, things have looked pretty bleak for Aaron Boone\u2019s squad, but all that came to a head on Tuesday. The Yankees matched Monday\u2019s miserable 17-strikeout total on Tuesday to give them 34 over a two-game span, which beat their previous team record of 31 in two games. Congrats, team!<\/p>\n

NBC Sports | George Bissell<\/a>: If you\u2019re looking for a glimmer of hope, or at least just fun, Max Fried looks ready to start working his way back to the rotation. On Saturday, Fried is scheduled to face hitters in another<\/a> live batting practice session at Double-A Somerset. The bone bruise in his elbow has kept him out since mid-May, but if things progress well, he could be in line to return before the end of the month.<\/p>\n

The Athletic | Chris Kirschner<\/a>: While many fans are undoubtedly tired of Anthony Volpe\u2019s lack of production and want to see Jos\u00e9 Caballero get more playing time at shortstop, it likely won\u2019t result in much of a boost to the lineup. Though Caballero\u2019s two home runs on Monday helped drive the team to a win they seemingly can\u2019t buy these days, overall his numbers the past three or so weeks have been pedestrian and comparable to Volpe\u2019s (indeed, he struck out four times in an 0-for-4 yesterday). Hey, at least he has a different face than Volpe though, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN: The All-Star Game and Home Run Derby are upon us, and after finding out he\u2019ll be making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,142,42069,3881],"class_list":["post-746233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-yankees","tag-yankees-link-roundup","tag-yankees-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116883707926176314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746233","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=746233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}