MLB Player News

Voit is out of the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Blue Jays.

With Giancarlo Stanton occupying the designated hitter spot rather than right field, Voit will head to the bench for the second time in the series. Voit looks to be fighting Brett Gardner for one spot in the Yankees' everyday lineup.

Santana went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in Tuesday's 7-3 loss to the Orioles.

He took Alexander Wells deep in the fourth inning, but the Royals were already in a 6-1 hole at that point. Santana is now one homer shy of his eighth season with 20 or more, but his .703 OPS (on a .225/.329/.374 slash line) would be the worst mark of his career over a full schedule.

Dalbec went 2-for-2 with a pair of two-run home runs in Tuesday's 12-7 loss to Tampa Bay.

The 26-year-old spelled Rafael Devers at third base, and Dalbec delivered with homers in the eighth and ninth innings as Boston tried to come back from a significant deficit. Dalbec recorded his first 20-homer season in the process, and he's added 69 RBI, 41 runs scored and a stolen base while slashing .244/.302/.483 in 391 plate appearances. Going forward, Dalbec is expected to see the short side of a platoon with Kyle Schwarber at first base.

Dalbec isn't starting Tuesday's game against the Rays, Ian Browne of MLB.com reports.

Enrique Hernandez (illness) was reinstated from the COVID-19 injured list Tuesday and is starting in center field, so Kyle Schwarber will start at first base. Now that Hernandez is healthy, manager Alex Cora said that Schwarber will likely see most of the playing time at first base against right-handed pitchers, Bill Koch of The Providence Journal reports.

Diaz went 3-for-5 in an extra-inning win over the Red Sox on Monday.

Several of his teammates had more impactful hits, but Diaz still enjoyed a productive day with his fifth multi-hit effort in the last 14 games. That stretch has represented a timely late-season surge for Diaz, whose .333/.396/.458 slash line during that span is partly constituted of three doubles and a home run across 53 plate appearances.

Gurriel went 2-for-4 with a walk and three runs scored in Monday's 11-2 win over the Mariners.

Monday's game was Gurriel's first this season with three runs scored. The 37-year-old notched a pair of base hits and a walk and came around to score each time. Gurriel has been scorching hot at the plate since late August, as he's slashing .371/.458/.532 with two homers, six RBI, 13 runs scored and 10:11 BB:K over his last 16 games.

Guerrero went 3-for-5 with a solo home run in Monday's 8-0 win over the Yankees.

His first-inning blast off Jameson Taillon made history in a couple different ways. At 22 years old, Guerrero became the youngest player in Blue Jays history to slug 40 homers in a season, and with his Hall of Fame dad and namesake, he's also now part of one of the only two father-son duos in MLB history to each record 40-homer campaigns (Cecil and Prince Fielder being the others). Guerrero also extended his hitting streak to 14 games with the performance, a stretch during which he's batting a blistering .414 (24-for-58) with four home runs, nine RBI and 12 runs.

France went 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs in an extra-innings win over the Diamondbacks on Sunday.

France crossed the plate in the fourth and 11th innings in the marathon victory. The 27-year-old has reached safely in seven of the last eight games, pushing his on-base percentage to an elite .363 across 127 games.

Mountcastle (foot) will start at first base and bat second Monday against the Royals, Roch Kubatko of MASNSports.com reports.

A sore foot kept Mountcastle on the bench for Sunday's 8-7 win over the Yankees, but his return to the lineup a day later suggests he was sidelined to close out the weekend mostly as a matter of precaution. With Mountcastle starting at first base and Cedric Mullins getting a rare turn as the Orioles' designated hitter, Trey Mancini will hit the bench Monday.

Gittens (hamstring) was reinstated from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's 7-day injured list Saturday, and he went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts in his return to the starting lineup.

Gittens was sidelined for approximately two weeks with the hamstring injury. The 27-year-old has submitted a monstrous 1.160 OPS at Triple-A this season, but he likely won't be in the mix for a September call-up now that the Yankees have Anthony Rizzo and Luke Voit on hand to pick up work at first base.