New York is waiting for you and me, baby
Waiting to swallow us down
What's left of the 2024 Blue Jays will continue their road trip in the Bronx, where the Yankees are waiting. There could be carnage.
The Yankees spent more than a month playing some pretty bad baseball - they went 11-24 from June 13 through July 26 - but they've now won their last five games. Their big deadline acquisition, Jazz Chisholm has gone 7-19 with 4 HRs in the four games he's played in pinstripes. So there's a move that's working out nicely.
You may recall that last season the Marlins asked Chisholm, who had spent his entire professional career in the middle of the infield, to switch to centre field (because the Marlins had somehow filled their roster with about half a dozen second basemen.) Chisholm was not vexed by this - he was excited by the challenge. Now he's a Yankee, and with Aaron Judge in centre and Gleyber Torres at second base (and reportedly unwilling to move), Aaron Boone asked Chisholm to try his hand at third base, another position he'd never played before. Chisholm seems to have said "That one over there? Cool." and went out and hit a bunch of home runs. You've got to admire that.
Matchups
Fri 2 Aug - Gausman (9-8, 4.44) vs Stroman (7-5, 3.64)
Sat 3 Aug - Berrios (9-8, 3.93) vs Rodon (11-7, 4.34)
Sun 4 Aug - Ya.Rodriguez (1-4, 4.31) vs Cole (3-2, 5.40)
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