{"id":148395,"date":"2025-09-11T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148395\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:06:09","slug":"luke-weaver-struggles-after-being-called-to-pitch-in-yankees-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/148395\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Weaver struggles after being called to pitch in Yankees’ loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aaron Boone did not want to bring Luke Weaver in to pitch the ninth inning of a game in which the Yankees were getting blown out.<\/p>\n

Austin Wells\u2019 home run in the bottom of the eighth forced his hand.<\/p>\n

The solo shot trimmed the Yankees deficit from eight to seven runs, meaning by rule Boone could not use a position player (Austin Slater) to start the ninth like he had been planning.<\/p>\n

So instead, Boone called on Weaver, who added to the misery by giving up three runs while recording one out, which eventually allowed Boone to use Slater after all to record the final two outs of the inning in a brutal 11-1 loss to the Tigers<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\"AaronAaron Boone takes Luke Weaver out of the game in the ninth inning of the Yankees\u2019 11-1 blowout loss to the Tigers on Sept. 10, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, I never want to bring Weave into a situation like that,\u201d Boone said. \u201cBut obviously, you get short and you kind of have to. I was going to go to Slater, and then Wells hits the homer to make it a seven-run game. You hate going to a guy in that situation, but if you go [Fernando] Cruz, then he\u2019s probably down [Thursday], and Weave\u2019s had the most rest between [Devin] Williams and [David] Bednar.\u201d<\/p>\n

MLB rules state position players can pitch only if a game is in extra innings, a team is trailing by at least eight runs at any point or a team is winning by at least 10 runs entering the ninth inning.<\/p>\n

Slater, in his second-career major league pitching appearance, was the only Yankees reliever not to give up a run.<\/p>\n

\"LukeLuke Weaver delivers a pitch in the ninth inning of the Yankees\u2019 loss to the Tigers. Jason Szenes \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Anthony Rizzo called it a career Wednesday<\/a>, announcing his retirement after going unsigned this season following the Yankees declining his option last offseason. <\/p>\n

The 36-year-old first baseman, a new dad who was in the crowd at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday and visited with Boone before the game, will formally retire as a Cub on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, a great career,\u201d Boone said. \u201cAll-Stars, Gold Gloves, Sliver Slugger, world champion. A key figure for us here these last few years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just got a larger-than-life personality and presence to him that\u2019s very real. A guy that played the game within the game so well. A lot of moxie. I think about even last year, struggling through a lot of last year, getting hurt, coming back, still being hurt and playing through pain. Having to numb [two broken fingers] every game and even during the game and still going out and performing the way he did. He\u2019s a great player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rizzo, who often was hailed as a great teammate, spent 3 \u00b9\/\u2082 seasons with the Yankees, a tenure that was largely derailed by post-concussion syndrome following a collision in May 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Yankees are urging fans to arrive early and take mass transportation for Thursday\u2019s game due to enhanced security measures with President Donald Trump scheduled to attend the game on the 24th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks. <\/p>\n

Yankee Stadium gates will open to ticketed fans at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Paul Goldschmidt, who turned 38 on Wednesday, remained on the bench for the fourth straight game, the longest stretch he has gone without playing this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Boone did not want to bring Luke Weaver in to pitch the ninth inning of a game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1992,32035,363,369,99],"class_list":["post-148395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-boone","tag-luke-weaver","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}