{"id":87869,"date":"2024-10-18T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=87869"},"modified":"2024-10-18T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T22:02:23","slug":"injured-ian-hamilton-replaced-mark-leiter-jr-yankees-alcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/18\/injured-ian-hamilton-replaced-mark-leiter-jr-yankees-alcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Yankees Reliever Replaced on ALCS Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After exiting Game 3 on Thursday night, New York Yankees right-hander Ian Hamilton has been replaced by Mark Leiter Jr. on the ALCS roster. The reliever left the game with apparent left calf tightness. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The news comes hours before the start of Game 4 in Cleveland. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Prior to tonight\u2019s game, the Yankees replaced RHP Ian Hamilton on the ALCS roster with RHP Mark Leiter Jr. (#38).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Yankees (@Yankees) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yankees\/status\/1847382454111523258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamilton appeared to be in pain after covering first base in the sixth inning of Game 3. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/07\/yankees-injured-pitchers-return\/\" target=\"_self\">The injury-riddled Hamilton<\/a>, who has pitched in just 1 \u2154 innings in the postseason, was one of New York\u2019s most reliable relievers when healthy this season. The 29-year-old pitched to a 3.82 ERA and excelled at limiting barreled balls during the regular season. Unfortunately, Hamilton will not be eligible to return to the roster for the World Series if the Yankees <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/08\/yankees-keys-to-winning-alds\/\" target=\"_self\">make it past the ALCS<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Ian Hamilton Replaced by Mark Leiter Jr. on Yankees ALCS Roster<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamilton&#8217;s replacement, fellow right-hander Mark Leiter Jr, was previously left off both the Yankees\u2019 ALDS and ALCS rosters. Leiter, 33, was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/mark-leiter-jr-yankees-cubs-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">traded to New York<\/a> from the Chicago Cubs at this year&#8217;s trade deadline. Unfortunately, his season didn\u2019t improve upon coming to New York. In 21 \u2154 regular season innings, Leiter posted a 4.98 ERA and allowed six homers. However, Leiter has shown flashes of effectiveness, boasting a 33.6% strikeout percentage and a 38.1% whiff percentage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite debuting in 2017, Leiter has yet to appear in a single postseason game in his career. This is likely to change, as the Yankees\u2019 bullpen availability continues to decline after the gut-wrenching loss in Game 3. If Leiter harnesses the command that has so often escaped him this season, he could be a viable bullpen option.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the series momentum shifts in the Guardians\u2019 direction with their 7-5 win in Game 3, the Yankees can only hope that their bullpen doesn\u2019t take any more hits than it already has. Next to Cleveland\u2019s MLB-best \u2018pen, the Yanks are going to need all they can get out of Leiter and his fellow relievers if they wish to advance to the World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 David Dermer-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After exiting Game 3 on Thursday night, New York Yankees right-hander Ian Hamilton has been replaced by Mark Leiter Jr. on the ALCS roster. The reliever left the game with apparent left calf tightness. The news comes hours before the start of Game 4 in Cleveland. Prior to tonight\u2019s game, the Yankees replaced RHP Ian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5148,"featured_media":87874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[5877,2619],"class_list":["post-87869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-ian-hamilton","tag-mark-leiter-jr"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}