{"id":877291,"date":"2026-08-30T17:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877291\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:54:22","slug":"new-york-yankees-rookie-ss-george-lombard-jr-day-to-day-with-right-knee-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877291\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Yankees rookie SS George Lombard Jr. day-to-day with right knee discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York Yankees<\/a> rookie shortstop George Lombard Jr. missed the first game of his big league career because of right knee discomfort on Sunday, a day after tweaking his knee on a check swing.<\/p>\n

Lombard is day to day and not expected to go on the injured list. The Yankees also said he is not expected to get any cortisone injections.<\/p>\n

\u201cStructurally everything\u2019s good, which is obviously good news,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said before the Yankees concluded a four-game series with Boston.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo right now it\u2019s day to day. They don\u2019t seem too concerned about it but you got to get the discomfort and swelling out of there. So we\u2019ll see what we have today, obviously then tomorrow and hopefully it stays a day to day and he\u2019s back in there soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lombard was pulled after lining out to left field in the third inning of a 9-2 win over the Red Sox in the nightcap of Saturday\u2019s doubleheader. He singled in the second inning one pitch after experiencing pain on a check swing.<\/p>\n

Before the single off Boston\u2019s Brayan Bello<\/a>, Lombard grimaced and held his right knee. Boone and head athletic trainer Tim Lentych checked on him and Lombard continued for another inning.<\/p>\n

\u201cStructurally all the ligaments and everything was fine,\u201d Lombard said before Sunday\u2019s game. \u201cThat was good news. Now when I come in today, there was just a little inflammation and kind of soreness in the patella, kneecap area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Caballero finished Saturday\u2019s game at shortstop and started there on Sunday for the first time since Aug. 3. He will play shortstop if Lombard misses more time beyond Sunday.<\/p>\n

Lombard joined the Yankees on Aug. 4 and became the first New York shortstop to homer in his big league debut. The 21-year-old is hitting .253 with two homers and six RBIs in 23 games since getting promoted from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes Barre after the Yankees used Caballero and Anthony Volpe<\/a> at shortstop.<\/p>\n

Lombard also has committed seven errors. He became the first Yankee shortstop with errors in six straight games since Roger Peckinpaugh in 1915 when he misplayed a grounder by Yainer Diaz<\/a> in the eighth inning of Thursday\u2019s 5-1 loss to Houston.<\/p>\n

Gil called up from Triple-A <\/p>\n

Luis Gil<\/a> returned to the Yankees for the first time in more than four months when he was recalled from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes Barre. Gil was optioned to Triple-A after struggling in a 7-4 loss at Houston on April 26 and also missed more than three months with right shoulder inflammation.<\/p>\n

The 2024 AL Rookie of the Year is 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA in six minor league appearances this year. He was 1-2 with a 6.05 ERA in four starts with the Yankees in April.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been throwing the ball well,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s done a nice job. So he\u2019s not only been in that conversation, not only this time but he\u2019s been in that conversation the last couple of times we\u2019ve been in a position to call somebody up.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make room for Gil, reliever Yerry De Los Santos was optioned to Triple-A. He pitched in both games of Saturday\u2019s doubleheader and is 1-0 with a 1.35 ERA in 15 appearances during four stints with the Yankees.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here <\/p>\n

Larry Fleisher, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York Yankees rookie shortstop George Lombard Jr. missed the first game of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-877291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}