{"id":354447,"date":"2026-09-23T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354447\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:26:16","slug":"jazz-chisholm-jr-makes-yankees-return-as-playoff-questions-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354447\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Chisholm Jr. makes Yankees return as playoff questions loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jazz Chisholm Jr. returned to what looks like a Yankees infield competition with a hit, a walk and a defensive mistake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The second baseman was activated from the injured list for the nightcap of Tuesday\u2019s doubleheader and got the nod at second base after Anthony Volpe \u2014 who has played well at the spot<\/a> in his absence \u2014 started the first game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chisholm\u2019s most memorable moment, though, was failing to cover first base on a safety squeeze in the 6-1 loss in The Bronx<\/a> that helped the Rays clinch the division.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With one out and runners on the corners in the seventh inning and Taylor Walls at the plate, manager Aaron Boone said the Yankees were aware that a bunt would be coming \u201cmore often than not.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And sure enough, Walls pushed a bunt toward first base, and Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. charged, as he was supposed to, Boone said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chisholm started to run over but stopped, believing Garc\u00eda would halt his charge and return to the base. Chisholm instead hovered by second base.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jazz Chisholm Jr. catches a pop out by Yandy D\u00edaz during the fifth inning of the Yankees\u2019 6-1 loss to the AL East champion Rays in Game 2 of a split doubleheader on Sept. 22, 2026 at the Stadium. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just gotta go [to first base] every time, and he knows that,\u201d Boone said of Chisholm, who acknowledged the mistake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNext time, I\u2019ll just keep going through,\u201d said Chisholm, who was sidelined for two weeks after spraining his right thumb<\/a> Sept. 8 and has returned to a team sorting out its infield with five games to go before the postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked before the doubleheader if Volpe would continue to get time at second with Chisholm back, Boone said, \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthony Volpe strikes out swinging during the third inning of the Yankees\u2019 2-0 win over the Rays in Game 1 of a split doubleheader. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

Chisholm went 1-for-3 with a single and a walk, while Volpe went 0-for-3 with three strikeouts in the 2-0 doubleheader opener. Entering play, Volpe had hit .286 with a .753 OPS in 10 games with Chisholm on the IL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Yankees also have to figure out third base, as Ryan McMahon is a mess on both sides of the ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Caballero got the start there in the opener against Martinez and went 1-for-3 with a pair of stolen bases, with lefty-swinging McMahon in the lineup for the nightcap against Drew Rasmussen. McMahon went 0-for-2 with a strikeout and could not make a difficult play on a Nick Fortes chopper that reached McMahon on an in-between hop and went for an infield single.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Boone said he wanted to get \u201cregular reps\u201d for both Caballero and McMahon, who entered Tuesday just 6-for-40 with an OPS of .402 since returning from a sprained thumb Sept. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amed Rosario, signed in the offseason with the idea of playing third against lefties, has not produced in those situations this year, and the Yankees have mostly gone with Caballero and McMahon over the last three weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To make room on the roster for Chisholm, Max Schuemann was optioned to the FCL Yankees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clarke Schmidt\u2019s bullpen availability is still a question mark for the Yankees. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

Clarke Schmidt played catch Tuesday after experiencing cramping in his biceps<\/a> while warming up during Sunday\u2019s game against Arizona.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Boone said the team was awaiting word from doctors regarding the right-hander\u2019s availability, but a source told The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman that Schmidt still felt something in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another source said an IL stint isn\u2019t out of the question as Schmidt is trying to earn a spot on the postseason roster after missing over a year following Tommy John surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ryan Weathers threw a bullpen session between games as he works to return from a left forearm strain, and Fernando Cruz (UCL) played catch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Yankees haven\u2019t announced their playoff rotation, but Gerrit Cole has started the team\u2019s first postseason game in every season in which he\u2019s been healthy since he joined the organization in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The right-hander will start Wednesday and was asked by The Post how he would feel if Cam Schlittler got the start in the first game of a wild-card series this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFine by me,\u2019\u2019 said Cole, who had a similar reaction when there was discussion of having Nestor Cortes open the playoffs in 2022. \u201cWhat matters is me trying to be my best. Whatever [Boone] thinks is good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Stanton jogged in the outfield between games Tuesday. Stanton suffered his third calf strain of the season, and first in his left leg, over four weeks ago, and there remains no guarantee he returns this season\u2026 The Yankees have won at least 90 games eight times in the last nine years in which there\u2019s been a full season. \u2026 The Yankees lost both ABS challenges early in Game 1 on Tuesday, as Ali S\u00e1nchez had a poor challenge catching in the top of the first and Heliot Ramos followed with an even worse challenge at the plate in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazz Chisholm Jr. returned to what looks like a Yankees infield competition with a hit, a walk and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4459,37028,20,9,11,10,321,319],"class_list":["post-354447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-jazz-chisholm","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\/354447","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=354447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}