TORONTO \u2014 The New York Yankees are already down their starting right fielder, and now it\u2019s possible that their starting center fielder could miss time, too.<\/p>\n
Trent Grisham left Friday\u2019s 8-5 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in the sixth inning after pulling his hamstring rounding first base on a two-run single. Grisham took second base on the throw home and signaled to the dugout after awkwardly sliding into the bag.<\/p>\n
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he hopes Grisham\u2019s injury is \u201cnot too serious,\u201d but they will not know the severity until Saturday morning at the earliest. He underwent treatment on his hamstring as soon as he was pulled from the game and will continue to do so in the morning. As of now, the Yankees have not scheduled any imaging, but that could change depending on how he feels Saturday.<\/p>\n
If Grisham misses time, it\u2019ll be the latest injury blow to the Yankees. Last week, the Yankees placed Aaron Judge on the injured list<\/a> with a stress fracture in his rib. Last month, they placed their ace, Max Fried, on the injured list with a bone bruise<\/a> in his elbow. The Yankees have also been without slugger Giancarlo Stanton for nearly two months after he strained his calf<\/a>. But even with their significant injuries, the Yankees, along with the Tampa Bay Rays, are the only two teams with at least 40 wins in the American League.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we\u2019ve talked about all year, I feel like it\u2019s one of the deeper rosters we\u2019ve had in a while,\u201d Boone said of his club.<\/p>\n The Yankees could end Jasson Dom\u00ednguez\u2019s rehab assignment early to take Grisham\u2019s spot on the roster. Dom\u00ednguez has missed over a month after spraining his AC joint and has played in five rehab games in the past week. Boone said before Friday\u2019s game that the plan was to reevaluate Dom\u00ednguez on Monday, but the Yankees might need an outfielder now.<\/p>\n Dom\u00ednguez has played right field over the past few games, a position he had only played once in his professional career before his rehab assignment. With Cody Bellinger being the best defensive left fielder in MLB and Judge sidelined, it made sense for Dom\u00ednguez, a below-average defender in left field, to try a new position. If Grisham does go on the injured list, the Yankees could have an outfield alignment of Bellinger in left field, rookie Spencer Jones in center field and Dom\u00ednguez in right field.<\/p>\n But losing Grisham for any time would be a significant loss for the Yankees. He has been one of the Yankees\u2019 best hitters since the start of May. Since May 1, Grisham\u2019s 141 wRC+ was the third-best behind Paul Goldschmidt, Ben Rice and Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n The center fielder had a slow start to his 2026 season after being one of the unluckiest hitters in the sport through April. His .145 BABIP was the second-lowest among all MLB hitters; only Tampa Bay outfielder Cedric Mullins\u2019 was worse. But Grisham\u2019s underlying metrics suggested that his batted-ball luck would have positive regression if he did not alter his process.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been great,\u201d Boone said of Grisham before Friday\u2019s game. \u201cI really think he\u2019s been the same all year. Early on, he was kind of unlucky and not getting results. Now he\u2019s getting results. I feel like the at-bats have been consistent from Day 1. I feel like he\u2019s been a really important player to us, and it\u2019s been good to see how productive he\u2019s been here over the last few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n The Yankees\u2019 lineup entered Friday\u2019s game against Toronto at exactly league average in June. And now they\u2019ll possibly have to survive another injury to one of their top hitters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The New York Yankees are already down their starting right fielder, and now it\u2019s possible that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64369,7,11002,6,15],"class_list":["post-917598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-draft","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-football","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116741796252890625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}