{"id":777310,"date":"2026-08-13T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/777310\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:57:16","slug":"trent-grisham-putting-up-red-hot-stretch-for-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/777310\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent Grisham putting up red-hot stretch for Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"

At first, Wednesday emerged as an instance of Trent Grisham struggling in center field<\/a> \u2014 despite the public support of Aaron Boone one day prior, despite the Yankees having another option in Spencer Jones who could play there and a dip at the plate not helping his case.<\/p>\n

But by the end of the night, when the Yankees\u2019 10-5 win concluded<\/a>, Grisham\u2019s best offensive game in months made that \u2014 and his rough season at the plate at large with a $22 million contract \u2014 an afterthought. <\/p>\n

Grisham crushed two homers, collected three hits and drove in four runs, delivering his second multihomer game of the season and ninth of his career. <\/p>\n

He has collected multiple hits in three consecutive games, which tied his career best. And Grisham has gone 8-for-14 over his last four games, capturing one of his best stretches of the season as he attempts to fix a brutal start.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think he gets swung emotionally very much by highs and lows,\u201d Boone said. \u201cThe reality is he\u2019s putting together a lot of good at-bats right now for us, and we know that\u2019s what he\u2019s capable of \u2014 of setting the tone for us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grisham admitted that he wanted a better read on the ball off Brendan Donovan\u2019s bat at the start of the second inning, which had an exit velocity of 70 mph and an expected batting average of .170, according to Baseball Savant. The shallow fly ball into center field started with Grisham slowly jogging in. <\/p>\n

\" New York Yankees center fielder Trent Grisham reacts after he hits an RBI double in the seventh inning on Aug. 12, 2026. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n

Shortstop George Lombard Jr. ended up wildly attempting to dive for it, tumbling to the ground as Donovan sprinted into second with a double.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like the ball was up there long enough that a play could\u2019ve been made if everyone got the right jump on it,\u201d said Boone, who added that he still needed to watch the replay to see Grisham\u2019s read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"TrentTrent Grisham celebrates one of his two homers on Wednesday night. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

But the Yankees escaped the inning unscathed, and with two outs in the fifth inning, Grisham crushed a first-pitch sinker 364 feet to right field. <\/p>\n

He drove in Lombard with a double in the seventh before adding his 15th homer of the season in the eighth, giving him three in the last four games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier in my career, I\u2019ve gotten really high and really low, really emotional,\u201d Grisham said. \u201cWhat I\u2019ve seen in the better players across the league usually just kinda stay even-keeled. \u2026 So I just try to emulate that as much as I can.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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By the time the Yankees\u2019 game ended Aug. 2, Grisham\u2019s average had dipped to .211, the lowest it\u2019d been since early June. His career season in 2025 kept fading. <\/p>\n

But even with his power down one season after a career-best 34 homers, Grisham, at least for this 10-day stretch has started to ease some of those concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cHitting the ball in the seats and the gap,\u201d Boone said, \u201cI\u2019ll sign up for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At first, Wednesday emerged as an instance of Trent Grisham struggling in center field \u2014 despite the public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1797,5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,65,185,122,142],"class_list":["post-777310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-aaron-boone","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117086194732903876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777310","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=777310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}