{"id":311400,"date":"2026-08-01T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311400\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T09:14:13","slug":"amed-rosarios-homer-promising-yankees-sign-against-lefty-pitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311400\/","title":{"rendered":"Amed Rosario’s homer promising Yankees sign against lefty pitching"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO \u2014 Amed Rosario is a hardworking veteran and a valuable resource for some younger teammates, but at the end of the day, he is on the Yankees to crush lefties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Too often of late, though, especially at a time when they are missing some of their best hitters against lefties, he has not been able to do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Rosario picked a big spot to provide another jolt against a southpaw, taking Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga deep to spark the Yankees in a 2-0 win Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s capable of that,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cWe need his presence against these lefties.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his first 50 plate appearances of the season against lefties (through May 26), Rosario was hitting .273 with an .888 OPS. But in 66 plate appearances against lefties since then, entering Friday, he was batting just .161 with a .454 OPS. The struggles were noticeable in particular because he has usually been batting first or third against lefties, as the Yankees carry on without Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AmedAmed Rosario hits a solo home run during the Yankees\u2019 2-0 win over the Cubs on July 31, 2026 at Wrigley Field. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Rosario\u2019s 450-foot shot in the fourth inning \u2014 the second-longest home run by any Yankee this season \u2014 was their first base runner against Imanaga, who had retired the first 11 batters in a row. It was set up by his 11-pitch battle in the top of the first, which Imanaga ended up winning on a strikeout, but not before Rosario fouled off six pitches while working the count full, which later paid dividends.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely think it helped, not just me but also my teammates,\u201d Rosario said through an interpreter. \u201cBeing able to have a good at-bat, long at-bat allowed me to see all the pitches.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was also the only bit of resistance the Yankees showed their first time through the lineup against Imanaga, who cruised early, before Rosario and Spencer Jones homered the second time through.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had too [many] of those innings where a pitcher\u2019s gone through in 10, 12 pitches, whatever it is,\u201d Boone said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to score. It\u2019s hard, on given nights, to keep putting crooked numbers up. But those are the kind of at-bats that can pay off for you as the game unfolds.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the weather allows, the Yankees are scheduled to face another lefty Saturday in ex-Met David Peterson \u2014 the seventh lefty starting against them in a nine-game stretch \u2014 offering Rosario a chance to build some momentum after Friday\u2019s blast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was good to see us really lean on one,\u201d Boone said. \u201cThat ball\u2019s covered. \u2026 Imanaga the first time through the order kind of cut through us pretty easily. I thought the second time, we barreled a lot of balls up. We didn\u2019t have a ton to show for it, but we did have the two big homers, and overall throughout that lineup, guys were taking better at-bats and hitting some balls on the screws. So that was good to see. But obviously the two big homers carried the load today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Amed Rosario is a hardworking veteran and a valuable resource for some younger teammates, but at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36097,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-311400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-amed-rosario","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\/311400","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=311400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}