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The third straight sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium started chanting \u201cWe want Soto,\u201d and no one could blame them. The first 2 \u00b9\/\u2082 games of this marquee matchup with the Dodgers hadn\u2019t gone well, and his lineup replacement, Trent Grisham, was at bat and toting an .082 batting average.<\/p>\n
Call it tough love. Call it inspiration. Call it whatever you want.<\/p>\n
But darned if Grisham didn\u2019t respond to the crowd\u2019s rather rude rebuke, hooking a laser of a home run into the lower deck in right field to help salvage the final game in this confrontation of celebrated teams at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n
Grisham\u2019s surprise shot sent the Yankees to a 6-4 victory before a raucous crowd, and demonstrated that, yes, it is possible to win without Juan Soto, the Yankees\u2019 beloved new superstar who sat out the series with his forearm inflammation issue.<\/p>\n
Nobody saw this one coming. Not me, not the fans and certainly not Dodgers ace Tyler Glasnow, the MLB strikeout leader who whiffed 12 Yankees on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Grisham\u2019s stunning, sixth-inning, three-run homer off Glasnow not only turned the game, it won over the crowd. When he batted later, the chant was amended slightly, to \u201cWe Want Grisham.\u201d<\/p>\n
As they say around here, that\u2019s baseball, Suzyn. That\u2019s also the beauty of the game.<\/p>\n
Game to game, only unpredictability is predictable. Though Yankees manager Aaron Boone does deserve a hat tip for having the guts to pencil a .083 hitter into the fifth spot in the batting order. (After an earlier whiff it had dropped to .082.)<\/p>\n
Even with the surprise heroics, it\u2019s fair to say the Yankees aren\u2019t the same without Soto.<\/p>\n
We suspected as much since we witnessed the \u201cdisaster\u201d of that almost unspeakable 2023 season, when Soto was playing in relative obscurity for the underperforming Padres instead of here \u2014 where he belongs \u2014 for the underperforming 2023 Yankees. (And by the way, we use \u201cdisaster\u201d because that\u2019s what the team\u2019s architect, Brian Cashman, calls it, but we still favor \u201cdebacle.\u201d)<\/p>\n
Anyway, the equally celebrated Dodgers helped expose one potential issue with these newly dominant Yankees in the series, which until now appeared immovable, impenetrable, and yes, dare we say it, almost inevitable.<\/p>\n
The Yankees got some shocking heroics, but they do know they need that second superstar.<\/p>\n
Single-handedly, Soto transformed a lineup that was average on good days last season, that in no way resembled what the Bronx Bombers are supposed to be. To be as great as they can be now, too, they need him. His teammates get it.<\/p>\n
Just ask: Do they miss him?<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly a fool would say no,\u201d Alex Verdugo answered. \u201cHe\u2019s a big part of our lineup. He\u2019s a big part of how our offense rolls.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Soto hype\u2019s always been there. [But] just playing with him is kind of validating,\u201d Verdugo added. \u201cHis vision at the plate \u2026 his ability to hit to all fields with power \u2026 it\u2019s eye-opening.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yankees already suspected as much since they sent more than half a pitching rotation to San Diego to acquire him. But now they know for sure. Which is why club owner Hal Steinbrenner broke with tradition and offered to negotiate with him in-season. (Though there\u2019s no evidence anything\u2019s happening yet on that front, it was nice to hear.)<\/p>\n
No, one superstar isn\u2019t going to do it, not against the likes of a $300 million roster from LA with multiple superstars of its own. Aaron Judge certainly is trying to carry the club, and he couldn\u2019t possibly be doing any more. He stroked three more hits, including his 24th home run, and his stats are now so far above everyone else\u2019s it isn\u2019t funny. He spotted Soto a month, and he even beats the new superstar.<\/p>\n
The boisterous crowd, in a vocal mood, chanted \u201cM-V-P\u201d when Judge batted in the sixth, and he hit a ground single off third baseman Kik\u00e9 Hernandez\u2019s glove two batters before Grisham\u2019s heroics.<\/p>\n
Soto is said by teammates to be anxious to play, unsurprising since he was one of those rare superstars who\u2019s never absent. He played all 162 last year in the Padres\u2019 debacle of a season, which turned out to be the biggest waste of money this side of the 2023 Mets.<\/p>\n
It certainly hasn\u2019t helped that the Yankees faced Glasnow plus the other apple of their winter\u2019s eye, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, whose apparent determination to show the Yankees what they missed resulted in easily the most impressive performance of his young career Friday night. You just know Soto was relishing the thought he could win the matchup of 25-year-old phenoms. But while Soto is praying to play, the Yankees are doing right giving the forearm inflammation a few days to calm down.<\/p>\n
The Yankees appear to be targeting the next series at Kansas City for Soto\u2019s return, and that works if he\u2019s fully healed. \u201cThat\u2019s the hope,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n
At 46-21 now, the Yankees certainly have the luxury of making Soto wait even if it meant missing the season\u2019s biggest series. They did the right thing sitting him, even if it cost them a game or two and irked Soto, and even if it upset the fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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