ATLANTA — Jorbit Vivas says he likes to “play the game hard and correctly.”
However the Yankees’ rookie third baseman took his foot off the pedal on the worst time Friday night time, committing a pricey baserunning blunder that loomed over a 7-3 loss to the Braves at Truist Park.
The Yankees trailed 3-0 within the third inning with two on and one out when Cody Bellinger flew out to proper discipline. Vivas tried tagging up from second to advance 90 ft and thought he had third base, solely to get tagged out to finish the inning on a brutal double play that left Aaron Decide on deck.
Vivas slowed down earlier than he acquired to 3rd as Ronald Acuña Jr. made a terrific throw and third baseman Nacho Alvarez made a heads-up play to behave as if the throw was not coming till the final second.
“He’s standing there, and it looked like he wasn’t receiving the ball at all,” Vivas mentioned via an interpreter. “But that’s not on him; it’s on me there to make it to that base. Acuña has a really strong arm and he can make a throw from anywhere. That’s on me.”
Third-base coach Luis Rojas ran up the road making an attempt to get Vivas to slip on the play.
“I picked him up, but I picked him up kind of late,” Vivas mentioned. “The third baseman was standing there a little bit in the way. But it’s my fault.”
Supervisor Aaron Boone, a former third baseman who usually tried the play that Alvarez deftly made, mentioned Vivas learn Alvarez’s physique language and acquired tricked. Boone mentioned he instructed his infielder, “You can never let that happen again.”
“Jorbit is a guy that plays his tail off,” Boone mentioned. “He’s a hard-nosed player and he got caught up there. Obviously a situation that can’t happen.”
Relievers Mark Leiter Jr. (left fibular head stress response) and Fernando Cruz are making progress of their respective recoveries. Leiter may get on a mound for a light-weight bullpen session as quickly because the Yankees’ subsequent sequence in opposition to the Blue Jays in Toronto that begins Monday.
He’ll then endure one other MRI to see how a lot therapeutic has occurred, which may pave the way in which for a full aspect session by subsequent weekend.
Cruz, in the meantime, may start a throwing program as early as this weekend after struggling a high-grade indirect pressure on the finish of June. He not too long ago underwent a follow-up MRI that confirmed sufficient therapeutic to start out throwing, although he will probably be constructed up slowly till he’s absolutely healed.
Luis Gil (lat pressure) made his second rehab begin Friday with Double-A Somerset, constructing as much as 57 pitches throughout 3 ¹/₃ innings through which he struck out seven, walked two and gave up two runs. If he recovers properly, he’s anticipated to make his subsequent rehab begin Wednesday with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
“Then we’ll decide at that point, do we want one more to get him over 70 or do we take him at that time?” Boone mentioned.
The Yankees plan to name up Allan Winans on Saturday, The Publish’s Joel Sherman reported, taking the place of Rico Garcia, who was designated for project after throwing 2 ²/₃ innings Friday.
Ryan Yarbrough (indirect pressure) is throwing however has not but superior to a bullpen session.
