{"id":299143,"date":"2026-07-18T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:02:08","slug":"the-yankees-george-lombard-jr-watch-has-started-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299143\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yankees&#8217; George Lombard Jr. watch has started again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restart the clock for a possible George Lombard Jr. sighting in The Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees\u2019 top prospect has re-entered the radar, activated by Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre before Friday\u2019s game after missing about a month with a pair of sprained fingers on his glove hand.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the injury, Lombard had begun to do what he had done at Double-A Somerset: bounce back from a slow start and show signs he was about to conquer the level.<\/p>\n<p>In his first 15 games with SWB after a late April promotion, he was hitting .127 with seven hits, all singles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restart the clock for a possible George Lombard Jr. sighting in The Bronx. The Yankees\u2019 top prospect has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,20,9,24,321,63,319,428,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-299143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299143","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=299143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}