00:00Yankees have been treading water now without Aaron Judge and John Carlos Stanton for over a month,
00:05and Ben Rice is not just treading water. He's swimming in it. 29 home runs this season,
00:0966 runs driven in. We saw some of this breakout last year. We've really seen it this year.
00:15Right-handed pitchers, I mean, he is just absolutely killing them, Tom. Like, he is as
00:20good a left-handed pitcher against righties than anybody I've seen in the game right now.
00:24So, 971 OPS, and, you know, they're just trying to hang on until Judge, if Judge, I guess,
00:31comes back in John Carlos Stanton. But young player here, I wonder what his second half is going to look
00:35like.
00:36Right. He went through a little bit of a slump right after Judge got hurt and went on the I
00:40.L.
00:40He was certainly slumping for a bit. He's turned things around in a big way, especially in the series
00:45versus the Rays when they split that series 2-2 with the Rays. He had, like, five home runs in
00:51that
00:51four-game series, a game with multiple home runs. So, turning things around at the right time,
00:55heading into the Home Run Derby, which he'll be participating on Monday night. But good for him,
01:00good for the Yankees who have kind of turned things around on their front.
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