{"id":210662,"date":"2026-04-26T23:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:22:11","slug":"yankees-option-luis-gil-to-triple-a-after-ugly-outing-vs-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210662\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees option Luis Gil to Triple-A after ugly outing vs. Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2013 Luis Gil was already on the clock, but the Yankees sped it up after his clunker on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The club optioned Gil to Triple-A after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/26\/sports\/luis-gil-struggles-as-yankees-end-eight-game-win-streak-with-stinker-versus-astros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he got crushed in a 7-4 loss to the Astros<\/a> at Daikin Park.<\/p>\n<p>Gil gave up six runs in four-plus innings with plenty of loud contact, including a pair of two-run homers that put the Yankees in an early hole.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39205560\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/new-york-yankees-starting-pitcher-126458822.jpg\" alt=\"Yankees starting pitcher Luis Gil (81) delivers a pitch during the second inning against the Houston Astros at Daikin Park. \" class=\"wp-image-39205560\"  \/>Yankees starting pitcher Luis Gil (81) delivers a pitch during the second inning against the Houston Astros at Daikin Park.  Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Equally as troubling as the hard contact was the lack of swing-and-miss. <\/p>\n<p>Gil did not record a single whiff on the 22 four-seam fastballs the Astros swung at, and only generated three whiffs overall on the 34 swings they took.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gil was the obvious odd man out for when Carlos Rod\u00f3n returns to from the injured list \u2013 he is expected to need at least two more rehab starts \u2013 but instead of waiting, the Yankees sent him packing on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Luis Gil was already on the clock, but the Yankees sped it up after his clunker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46144,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-210662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-luis-gil","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}