New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox _ Spring Training Highlights (3_4_26)

The Yankees will tell you, regardless of the position he plays on the infield and he can bounce around when he's out there, it's his infield. That's the type of presence that he has. I don't want to. Oh, what a start. What noise off the bat of George Lombard Jr. 1-0 Yankees. And I'll say this, wind blowing right to left, but it did not matter. Quiet with his hands, trying to listen to the sound. 1-0 New York. Heel, who can fire, does there, and he delivers that strike. 0-1 to Christian Campbell. All sorts of potential there. Laid on a nasty fastball inside to go 0-2 for Heel at 96. This is the guy we saw a couple years ago. Good pitch there as down goes the leadoff hitter. Trying to cheat to get to that riding fastball. Change up to Trevor Story to get ahead 0-1. Aaron Boone said to us before the game, this is a big start for Louise Heel. Trevor Story, sky high, pop up into the blue sky. Story, he knows it. He called himself out. How about Louise Heel's start? Back-to-back punch-outs of Campbell and Story. Well, Story for Heel is going to be that number one. And again, uses it really well, paints the outside corner. Third spring start for Heel, who now gets Marcelo Meyer. And he swings and sends one to center. That one sends a center fielder, Jones, back and right there. And that triangle is there to make the catch. Very, very good inning for Louise Heel. The way he's setting up with his legs, it looks a lot like Otani. Intentionally. Yeah, but hands are more like Aaron Judge. Rolls one over to second base. And that is Meyer. You're a different looking dude when you came into camp. This ball is also lifted to left. And this one is towards the monster. And that one is high off the top of it. Andrew Montecario is into second base with a double. Yeah, I mean, it just made me want to play that much more. Montecario goes at it and he is thrown out. Nice play behind the plate. Henry fired down to Ornelas and the tag is made. And all of a sudden, you're beating guys like Duran and Story. Is that fact? Yeah, I mean, Story told me not to tell anybody. Talked with Moody before the game about Lombard. And as a scout, can you see that there's the potential for the bat to catch up to what... He's a gold glove. Hard on the ground underneath the glove of Story. And Lombard has squared up two of Crochet's fastballs. 26 home runs, a 499 slugging percentage. And just in talking with Paul Goldschmidt, their backup first baseman earlier this spring, he talked about what a growth mindset Ben Rice has. The fact he asks questions all the time. They think he's going to have a big year. Yeah, he goes the other way. And this one is now going towards that monster. And it goes off of the monster and flying around third base. And coming in and safe standing up. The fleet footed George Lombard Jr. Give Ben Rice at RBI as he goes monster shopping. And it's 2-0 Yankees. Gio was great for us. Beyo was awesome. You know, having soirees and Sonny. Having a conversation with Byron Buxton, I asked him. Story, how about Gio after we saw the first two guys walk? He then strikes out Azokar, Campbell and Story. He got sawed off here. And this one looks like it's going to fall. And it will. And then spin into the seats. And that will end up being a ground rule double. And Eddie, it's a 99 mile an hour fastball that he was able to get to. He didn't square it up. But he ends up on second base. A little squeeze play here that will work. And Guerrero throws in time. But a good bunt. And it did bring the run in from third and De Jong. And it's now the Yankees three and the Red Sox nothing. Now they, you know, they are able to monitor. On the ground, well done over there. Or Nellis and De Jong made that look pretty easy. Other side of the coin on. Boy, you guys have a lot of injuries. Is the, well, we also don't have a lot of injuries. And we don't know how many we're preventing. But we have to assume we're preventing something. Yeah, that's a, it's a great way you put that, Carl. Like we always, you know, it's like, I always, when I'm, when you make an analogy like that. It's like when we first started shifting in the sport. Whatever that was, right? 15 years ago. It's like, you'd see the ball roll through the right side. And it's like, see, it doesn't work, you know. Or, or a guy, you know, when you started seeing catchers go to the knee. And a ball goes to the backstop or something. See, they can't block from there. Well, it's eventually, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everything's going to happen, right? You know, you're, you're trying to do, you know, what's best. And I think, you know, I think, I think we're moving the needle. Actually, in a, in a very, you know, unnatural, violent thing, which is pitching. Getting some intel, information on what they're doing. You got it. And he break down the Ben Rice swing. Fastball right down the middle. Does not miss. As he hit it, hits it out to the paddies. You know, they're getting exposed on a major level, on TV and otherwise. As the ground ball will end it. And the Yankees put on a pretty impressive show here. Healed from the start. Lombard with a homer off crochet. And they beat the Boston Red Sox four to nothing. One of the best hitters in the game. He just leaned on that one. And there's going to be about 500 people up there on the berm trying to come up with the baseball. That thing almost got to the concourse, which is not easy to do here at Salt River Field. Like a cutter that didn't get into the hands. And make a mistake to Aaron Judge, this is usually what happens.