a 9-2 victory in the nightcap<\/a>. \u201cHe felt like it was bugging him a little bit more. Just seeing him in that at-bat and getting down the line, it wasn\u2019t great. Just felt like we needed to get him out of there.<\/p>\n\u201cHe was going to swing and really shut down, and caught his spike a little bit as he was putting the brakes on. Kind of tweaked it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Caballero moved over to shortstop and Amed Rosario was inserted at third base. <\/p>\n
If Lombard needs a stint on the injured list, the Yankees could bring back Anthony Volpe from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre. <\/p>\n
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George Lombard Jr. suffers a right knee injury after checking his swing during a second-inning at-bat in the Yankees\u2019 blowout win over the Red Sox in Game 2 of a split doubleheader. He was forced to exit later in the game. AP<\/p>\n
Since his demotion, Volpe hasn\u2019t hit a ton, notching a .681 OPS, although he has hit five home runs. Boone doesn\u2019t expect Lombard to miss much time, though.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Lombard was promoted to the big leagues Aug. 3 and homered in his debut. <\/p>\n
He made a number of sparkling defensive plays initially, but he recently had a streak of errors in six consecutive games before playing a clean game in the series opener Friday. <\/p>\n
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His offense has also fallen off. Currently, Lombard has a .247\/.306\/.364 slash line with a .670 OPS.<\/p>\n
But the Yankees obviously don\u2019t want to lose him. It seems like they can take a deep breath after the initial concern over his right knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are optimistic they have avoided the worst with the latest injury to a regular. George Lombard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71821,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-333252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-george-lombard-jr","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\/333252","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=333252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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George Lombard Jr., who exited the game with a right knee injury, grimaces after checking his swing during the second inning of the Yankees\u2019 9-2 win over the Red Sox in Game 2 of a split doubleheader on Aug. 29, 2026 at the Stadium. John Jones-Imagn Images<\/p>\n