Desperate Yankees shake up ALDS Game 3 lineup with season on the line

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New York Post · collected 2026-10-07 · by Greg Joyce

Quick Summary

For Game 3 of the ALDS against the Tampa Bay Rays, Yankees manager Aaron Boone changed his lineup strategy to avoid elimination. José Caballero is starting at third base and Anthony Volpe is playing second base, replacing Ryan McMahon and Jazz Chisholm Jr., respectively. This move aims to address recent defensive issues and inject some offensive spark into the team. The Yankees hope these adjustments will improve their performance in a critical game that could determine the series outcome.
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Story summary

In the do-or-die Game 3 of the ALDS between the Yankees and the Rays on October 5th at Yankee Stadium, Aaron Boone made significant lineup changes in an attempt to avoid elimination. The Yankees swapped José Caballero for Ryan McMahon at third base and Anthony Volpe for Jazz Chisholm Jr. at second base. This shift came after the Yankees' poor defensive performance resulted in four errors during Game 2, including a critical error by McMahon on his first chance at bat, which contributed to their loss in St. Petersburg. The Rays' pitcher Nick Martinez will face Max Fried for the Yankees in what is seen as potentially decisive game of the series.

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📰 Yankees Rays Playoff Series
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Who wrote this

Greg Joyce
51 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
🔮 McMahon has not brought much offensively and then committed a fielding error on the first ball put in play in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday night at Tropicana Field, the first of four the Yankees would make in Game 2.
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🔮 “So there would’ve been a right-hander I would have used at some point had we gotten runners on base, but by the time he was in the game it was 5-1.
2026-10-07 · assertive framing · Why Aaron Boone stuck with lefty hitters in ugly Game 2 loss
🔮 The Yankees will try to become the first team to come back from a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five series since they did it in the 2017 ALDS against Cleveland.
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🔮 When the division series makes its way to The Bronx, Max Fried will get the ball first for the Yankees.
2026-10-06 · assertive framing · Yankees reveal pitching plan for Game 3 and potentially beyond
🔮 The Yankees were technically off Sunday, but the players who wanted to get their work in ahead of Game 2 of the ALDS went to their spring training home instead of the field where they will play Monday night.
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🔮 Were the 18 runs on 26 hits the Yankees exploded for in their wild-card series proof they could survive postseason games without Aaron Judge, or just the result of feasting on a Red Sox bullpen after Tracy pulled his starter early in both games?
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🔮 In all likelihood, it would have been just as a pinch hitter, possibly with a chance to be a full player later in the best-of-five series against the Rays if his right calf allowed.
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🔮 But he still offers real value for the Yankees, with Aaron Boone saying earlier this week he could play a “massive role” moving forward.
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ALDS Game 2 Games 1 and 2 Rays Yankees

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Yankees ORG · 5× Chisholm PERSON · 3× Rays ORG · 2× Aaron Boone PERSON · 1× Anthony Volpe PERSON · 1× Ben Rice PERSON · 1× Greg Joyce PERSON · 1× Post Sports+ ORG · 1× Ryan McMahon PERSON · 1× freeJosé Caballero PERSON · 1×

Narrative

Chisholm also committed an error in that calamitous first inning, making a wild, ill-advised throw to first base while trying to turn a double play, along with a high throw to second base on another play that wiped out a chance of a double play.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-07
🔮 McMahon has not brought much offensively and then committed a fielding error on the first ball put in play in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday night at Tropicana Field, the first of four the Yankees would make in Game 2.
2026-10-07 · New York Post
Desperate Yankees shake up ALDS Game 3 lineup with season on the line · assertive framing

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With their season on the line, the Yankees are shaking up their lineup. asserted
Yankees → shake → lineup
After Aaron Boone stuck with the same eight-lefty lineup for Games 1 and 2 of the ALDS against the Rays, with the only runs coming on two solo shots from Ben Rice, he mixed it up for Game 3 on Wednesday. asserted
he → stick → Wednesday
Try it freeJosé Caballero is starting at third base over Ryan McMahon and Anthony Volpe is starting at second base over Jazz Chisholm Jr. as the Yankees try to stave off elimination against Rays right-hander Nick Martinez. asserted
Yankees → try → Martinez
Luis Garcia Jr. remains at first base. asserted
Jr. → remain → base
Trent Grisham is leading off and Austin Wells is batting sixth. asserted
Wells → lead → ?
McMahon has not brought much offensively and then committed a fielding error on the first ball put in play in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday night at Tropicana Field, the first of four the Yankees would make in Game 2. asserted
Yankees → bring → 2
This marks Caballero’s first start of the postseason, making it against his former team with the hope that his speed and general peskiness can provide a spark while his glove should be just as strong at third base behind Max Fried. asserted
glove → mark → Fried
Chisholm also committed an error in that calamitous first inning, making a wild, ill-advised throw to first base while trying to turn a double play, along with a high throw to second base on another play that wiped out a chance of a double play. asserted
that → commit → play
Volpe had started over Chisholm in Game 1 of the AL wild-card series against lefty Payton Tolle, which Chisholm had said beforehand would upset him, though he later played it off after they won the series. asserted
they → start → series
García crushed a home run as part of a three-hit effort in Game 2 of the wild-card series, but otherwise has looked off at the plate for much of the last month. asserted
García → crush → month
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