MLB.com | Max Ralph: Your New York Yankees return to play on Tuesday at Fenway Park, visiting the Boston Red Sox in the first series between the two archrivals since the Bombers eliminated the Sox from the 2025 Postseason in the Wild Card round. Luis Gil and his 7.00 ERA in two starts will take the mound for New York, facing the talented Connelly Early starting at 6:45 pm ET. The 13-9 Yanks lead the AL, and Boston is fourth with a 9-13 record.
Newsday ($) | David Lennon The Yankees used the red-hot
Ben Rice at the top of the lineup in Sunday’s 7-0 win over the Kansas City Royals, and the experiment was a resounding success. Lennon, however, believes Aaron Judge should be deployed as the leadoff hitter more often. “Judge has hit 90 first-inning homers in his career, including five this season, giving him the third-most in franchise history behind Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle. The Yankees’ captain is the definition of instant offense, and with Rice now red-hot, having homered in four straight games, manager Aaron Boone should dip his toe in those Judge leadoff waters again, as he did during the 2022 season,” he wrote.
NY Post | Mark W. Sánchez: Randal Grichuk is 2-for-20 to open the season. Those are the cold, hard numbers. Under the hood, however, he knows he deserves better. His .334 xwOBA is much, much more decent than his horrible .150 wOBA, and he also has a 61.5 percent hard-hit rate. He knows that with Anthony Volpe potentially returning soon, his place on the roster could be in jeopardy, but hopes that the work he has put in and the hard contact are enough to give him a chance, whether it happens on the Yankees or elsewhere.
“With Volpe coming back — it’s something you think about,” he said. “You’re not not thinking about it. You just got to hope that, if it doesn’t all work out here — and hopefully it does — somebody else is interested due to the fact that they see the underlying stuff, not the baseball-card numbers.”
MLB.com | Mike Lupica: Most baseball fans are familiar with the Yankees’ 1927 Murderers’ Row, an extraordinarily talented and deep offense that took baseball by storm back then. Lupica says that perhaps the modern edition of the Murderers’ Row can be the Yanks’ 2026 rotation. Cam Schlittler is sporting a 1.95 ERA, Will Warren is at 2.49, Max Fried at 2.97, and Ryan Weathers at 3.18. There is still a chance that Luis Gil, the owner of a 7.00 ERA, rebounds, and Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodón should return within weeks from now. It’s certainly an impressive collection of talent.
