{"id":865700,"date":"2026-06-14T01:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/865700\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:30:23","slug":"giancarlo-stanton-suffers-setback-right-before-potential-return-as-yankees-injury-woes-deepen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/865700\/","title":{"rendered":"Giancarlo Stanton suffers setback right before potential return as Yankees\u2019 injury woes deepen"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Just when it looked like Giancarlo Stanton was days away from a return, he has hit another snag.<\/p>\n

The veteran DH recently suffered at least a minor setback in his recovery from a calf strain, feeling \u201ca little something in there\u201d while running the bases, Aaron Boone said Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expected him back early in this homestand \u2014 that\u2019s in jeopardy now,\u201d Boone said before a 3-1 win over the Blue Jays <\/a>at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n

Stanton \u201cmay get some more imaging\u201d to check on his calf, Boone said, and while the 36-year-old has not been shut down from baseball activities, he now seems unlikely to return on this upcoming homestand that begins Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Having last played on April 24, Stanton had graduated to running the bases in his buildup, typically the last step before returning. But while hitting outside a day or two ago and running the bases off of that, he had a flareup.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he just felt a little something in his last one,\u201d Boone said.<\/p>\n

The saving grace for the Yankees is that in Stanton\u2019s absence, they have given Paul Goldschmidt near-everyday at-bats at first base or DH and the veteran has delivered, like he did on Saturday with a go-ahead two-run homer in the ninth inning. But the injuries have continued to pile up in the meantime, with Trent Grisham joining the IL<\/a> on Saturday with a hamstring strain that put him on the shelf alongside Stanton, Aaron Judge, Austin Wells and Max Fried.<\/p>\n

\"GiancarloGiancarlo Stanton suffered a setback. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n

Thanks in part to the defense behind him, Cam Schlittler was an escape artist on Saturday, stranding seven runners over seven innings of one-run ball on a day when he did not have his best command. While lowering his ERA to 1.82, Schlittler walked a season-high four batters, including two on eight straight balls in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n

But he got some key double plays and struck out seven while throwing 101 pitches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust trying to feel the body out,\u201d Schlittler said. \u201cIt\u2019s tough. It\u2019s not something I\u2019ve been able to really learn in the minors. You see some of the great guys up here, they do that really well, they can feel out their bodies. Something I\u2019m trying to work on and feel it out when I\u2019m out there and make adjustments when I need to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jazz Chisholm Jr. provided some of the strong defense for Schlittler, including a diving catch to his right with runners on second and third in the fourth inning. That helped make up for his brutal automated ball-strike system challenge in the top of the frame, on a 3-0 pitch that was fully in the zone.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The catch] took some of my ire off him for a minute,\u201d Boone deadpanned.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Caballero (0-for-4, four strikeouts) started a second straight game at shortstop Saturday for only the second time since returning from the IL last month. That has meant back-to-back days with Anthony Volpe on the bench, though Boone indicated he still views shortstop as a day-to-day situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Just when it looked like Giancarlo Stanton was days away from a return, he has hit…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":865701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10626,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-865700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116745879124376015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865700","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=865700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}