After a hot start to his MLB career on both sides of the ball, George Lombard Jr. has taken his lumps in the second half of August. He has a .563 OPS in his last 14 games and recently had a streak of errors in six consecutive games, though optimism of course remains high on his long-term outlook. Anyone can go through a tough stretch after all, especially as a rookie.
But Lombard might have hit a new hurdle during the nightcap of the Yankees’ Saturday doubleheader against the Red Sox. During an at-bat against Brayan Bello, he checked his swing but appeared to hurt his knee in the process. To be clear, this is just conjecture on my end, but…
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