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Casey Schmitt is likely to land on the injured list with a left oblique strain.
Schmitt suffered the oblique strain while hitting in the cage prior to Friday’s game against the Angels and is likely to miss a couple weeks, even in a best-case scenario.
J.P. Crawford was scratched from Wednesday’s lineup with shoulder tightness.
It seems like a precautionary decision based on postgame comments from Mariners manager Dan Wilson. Fantasy managers should consider him day-to-day for now. It’ll be Leo Rivas taking over at shortstop if he’s not ready for Friday’s series opener against the Padres.
Aaron Judge went 2-for-4 with a go-ahead homer in the eighth as the Yankees came back to beat the Mets 3-2 on Wednesday.
The Yankees scored single runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth, courtesy of a Jasson Domínguez double, a Paul Goldschmidt pinch-hit homer and Judge’s homer. The homer off Carlos Vargas was Judge’s hardest-hit ball of the year, leaving his bat at 117.7 mph. He leads the majors with 15 homers.
Will Warren allowed only a pair of unearned runs over five innings and struck out nine Wednesday against the Mariners.
Both runs scored in the third, an inning that got started on what’s being called a DJ LeMahieu error, even though LeMahieu made a fine throw to first that neither Ben Rice nor Warren decided to reach out and catch. That play might get changed to a single at some point, resulting in the runs being earned (it wasn’t a hit, but it’s even more wrong to call an error on LeMahieu). Warren’s nine strikeouts are a career high. He’s now fanned eight, seven and nine in his last three starts after failing to top six strikeouts in any of his first 11 career starts. He’s beginning to look like an option in deeper mixed leagues. He’ll face the Rangers at home next week.
Luke Weaver struck out the side in the ninth for a save Wednesday against the Mariners.
Weaver was back out there today despite throwing two innings in the 11-inning loss last night. The save was his fourth in five tries. He and the rest of the Yankees pen will now get a much-appreciated day off on Thursday.
Luis Castillo limited the Yankees to one run over six innings in a no-decision Wednesday.
It was destined to be a good day for Castillo when Julio Rodríguez robbed Trent Grisham of a homer on the first at-bat of the game. After seeing his velocity dip in a poor outing against the Jays last week, Castillo averaged a season-high 95.4 mph on his fastball today. He still gave up plenty of hard contact, but he struck out six and had 17 whiffs. He’s not an every-week guy in mixed leagues these days, but he’s a fine play with the White Sox next on the schedule.
Ben Williamson went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts in the loss to the Yankees on Wednesday.
Williamson is 7-for-39 with one extra-base hit and a 13/0 K/BB in his last 11 games, leaving him at .234/.258/.309 in 97 plate appearances overall. Still, he’s getting a lot more playing time than Leo Rivas, who has hit .333/.455/.356 in his 55 plate appearances. That might need to change in the coming days.