At the least, Ben Rice is going to step into a lineage with Kevin Maas, Shane Spencer and Shelley Duncan — Yankees prospects who arrived like meteors and never came close again to matching initial …
, Shane Spencer and Shelley Duncan — Yankees prospects who arrived like meteors and never came close again to matching initial power-laden outbursts.
But his on-balance approach and a smooth easy swing with surprising heft creates a chance to envision a lot more than just instant Rice. He has taken basically one good at-bat after another since his June 18 debut. And on Saturday, with the Yankees coming off their most disheartening loss of this season, playing their worst sustained ball in many years and all kinds of ugly questions about focus and hustle percolating, Rice for at least one day replaced anxiety with exultation.
The hope was that their ace, Gerrit Cole, could begin reversing this tide. But the Red Sox did for four-plus innings against Cole what they had done in the ninth inning Friday in forcing a— extending at-bats, soaring the pitch count and capitalizing on mistakes. Thus, the Yankees were going to need a hero from the opposite side of seniority and pay scale.
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