7-3 loss to the Braves at Truist Park<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe Yankees trailed 3-0 in the third inning with two on and one out when Cody Bellinger flew out to right field. Vivas tried tagging up from second to advance 90 feet and thought he had third base, only to get tagged out to end the inning on a brutal double play that left Aaron Judge on deck.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vivas slowed down before he got to third as Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. made a terrific throw and third baseman Nacho Alvarez made a heads-up play to act as if the throw was not coming until the very last second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees\u2019 Jorbit Vivas was caught tagging up in the Yankees\u2019 loss on Friday night. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s standing there, and it looked like he wasn\u2019t receiving the ball at all,\u201d Vivas said through an interpreter. \u201cBut that\u2019s not on him; it\u2019s on me there to make it to that base. Acu\u00f1a has a really strong arm and he can make a throw from anywhere. That\u2019s on me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Third-base coach Luis Rojas ran up the line trying to get Vivas to slide on the play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI picked him up, but I picked him up kind of late,\u201d Vivas said. \u201cThe third baseman was standing there a little bit in the way. But it\u2019s my fault.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Manager Aaron Boone, a former third baseman who often tried the play that Alvarez deftly made, said Vivas read Alvarez\u2019s body language and got tricked. Boone said he told his infielder, \u201cYou can never let that happen again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees second baseman Jorbit Vivas (90) is thrown out at third base after a fly ball caught by Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
\u201cJorbit is a guy that plays his tail off,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s a hard-nosed player and he got caught up there. Obviously a situation that can\u2019t happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Relievers Mark Leiter Jr. (left fibular head stress reaction) and Fernando Cruz are making progress in their respective recoveries. Leiter could get on a mound for a light bullpen session as soon as the Yankees\u2019 next series against the Blue Jays in Toronto that begins Monday. <\/p>\n
He will then undergo another MRI to see how much healing has happened, which could pave the way for a full side session by next weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Cruz, meanwhile, could begin a throwing program as early as this weekend after suffering a high-grade oblique strain at the end of June. He recently underwent a follow-up MRI that showed enough healing to start throwing, though he will be built up slowly until he is fully healed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luis Gil (lat strain) made his second rehab start Friday with Double-A Somerset, building up to 57 pitches across 3 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings in which he struck out seven, walked two and gave up two runs. If he recovers well, he is expected to make his next rehab start Wednesday with Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees Luis Gil (81) throws from the mound for practice before the game when the New York Yankees played the Baltimore Orioles Saturday, June 21, 2025 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NY. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we\u2019ll decide at that point, do we want one more to get him over 70 or do we take him at that time?\u201d Boone said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Yankees plan to call up Allan Winans on Saturday, The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman reported, taking the place of Rico Garcia, who was designated for assignment after throwing 2 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ryan Yarbrough (oblique strain) is throwing but has not yet advanced to a bullpen session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Jorbit Vivas says he likes to \u201cplay the game hard and correctly.\u201d\u00a0 But the Yankees\u2019 rookie…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1280,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,38819,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-74760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-ronald-acuna","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}