{"id":66055,"date":"2022-07-05T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/yankees-giving-matt-carpenter-a-look-in-the-outfield-to-get-veteran-more-at-bats"},"modified":"2022-07-05T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:35:00","slug":"yankees-giving-matt-carpenter-a-look-in-the-outfield-to-get-veteran-more-at-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/yankees-giving-matt-carpenter-a-look-in-the-outfield-to-get-veteran-more-at-bats","title":{"rendered":"Yankees giving Matt Carpenter a look in the outfield to get veteran more at-bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; Could Matt Carpenter be even more valuable to the Yankees? Sunday gave a brief glimpse of how the 36-year-old veteran infielder could see some more at-bats. Committed to keeping slugger Aaron Judge off his feet and giving him two days to rest his legs, Aaron Boone &#8220;ripped off the band-aid&#8221; and gave Carpenter a try in the outfield. &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t want to put [Judge] in the field if I didn&#8217;t have to [Sunday] and I was like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s roll with it with Carp,&#8217;&#8221; Boone said. &#8220;It was good to get him out there.&#8221; It had been eight years since Carpenter, who made his name with the Cardinals at third, had played in the outfield. But he eased right back into it with the only play to him in the final inning of a 2-0 loss to the Guardians . This isn&#8217;t a sign that Carpenter is going to be replacing struggling outfielders Joey Gallo or Aaron Hicks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; Could Matt Carpenter be even more valuable to the Yankees? Sunday gave a brief glimpse of how the 36-year-old veteran infielder could see some more at-bats. Committed to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}