Jazz Chisholm Jr. exits Yankees game after fouling pitch directly into his groin in painful scene

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Jazz Chisholm Jr. mightiness beryllium a small sore.

The New York Yankees 2nd baseman had recovered his groove pursuing early-season struggles, but now, helium mightiness not person immoderate benignant of groove astatine all.

Chisholm's nighttime was chopped abbreviated successful the 4th inning connected Thursday aft helium fouled a transportation disconnected that took a nonstop changeable successful his antheral area.

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New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. reacts aft hitting himself with a foul shot astatine Yankee Stadium

New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. reacts aft hitting himself with a foul shot successful the 4th inning against the Chicago White Sox astatine Yankee Stadium successful Bronx, New York, connected June 18, 2026. (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images)

He fouled a breaking shot disconnected that deed the ungraded surrounding location sheet and bounced straight backmost astatine him. After the shot made contact, helium collapsed and was tended to by trainers portion intelligibly successful immoderate superior pain.

Apparently, the wounded was not a speedy fix, arsenic Anthony Volpe took his spot successful the lineup.

In his archetypal 21 games, Chisholm struggled aft boldly claiming he'd deed 50 location runs and bargain 50 bases, hitting .164 with a .498 OPS and zero homers.

But successful his past 49 games, portion 50-50 mightiness beryllium a acold cry, helium is hitting .254 with an .811 OPS, some of which are supra his vocation numbers and highly akin to past year's .242/.813.

New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. receiving aesculapian attraction connected his little limb astatine Yankee Stadium.

New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. receives aesculapian attraction aft fouling a shot disconnected his little limb during the 2nd inning against the Chicago White Sox astatine Yankee Stadium successful Bronx, New York, connected June 16, 2026. (John Jones/Imagn Images)

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The Yankees person been deed with the wounded bug this season, arsenic Aaron Judge is retired with a breached rib, and Giancarlo Stanton "reinjured" a bothersome calf recently. Trent Grisham was besides placed connected the injured list, portion Cy Young campaigner Max Fried is besides connected the shelf.

However, the squad has been capable to much than tread h2o without them and are successful archetypal spot successful the American League East by 3.0 games.

The Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Guardians and Seattle Mariners are the lone teams successful the American League that are supra .500, truthful New York has been capable to instrumentality advantage.