Yankees manager Aaron Boone stepped into the cage at Fenway Park to take a few batting practice swings before the Sept. 13, 2025 game against the Red Sox.
BALTIMORE – Approaching a 30-30 season, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was asked recently about achieving that rare personal home run-stolen base feat.
Repeating as AL East champs is still in play, and the wild-card leading Yankees now have their third 30-30 player in history.
Chisholm belted his 30th home run of the year in Friday night’s seventh inning at Camden Yards, cutting Baltimore’s lead to 3-2.
But the Orioles went on to a 4-2 victory, snapping a three-game Yankees winning streak and preventing them from moving within two games of the AL East leading Toronto Blue Jays with eight games left.
But with lefty reliever Dietrich Enns on in the seventh, Austin Slater singled with two out and Chisholm belted the next pitch over the right field wall.
Baltimore’s 3-0 lead was helped by two unearned runs in the sixth, on a fielding error by starter Will Warren and Chisholm’s error at second base, trying to make a glove-flip to first base on a soft groundball.
Chisholm has exactly 30 homers and 30 steals, in 122 games played this year.
Which other Yankees players are in 30-30 Club?
In Yankees history, only Bobby Bonds in 1975 (32 HR, 30 SB) and Alfonso Soriano in 2002 (39 HR, 41 SB) and 2003 (38 HR, 35 SB) had reached 30-30 status as a Yankee until Chisholm joined that elite club.
What Aaron Boone says about Jazz Chisholm
It’s even more impressive, said Yankees manager Aaron Boone, noting that Chisholm was on the injured list from April 30 through June 2, due to an oblique strain.
Beyond the IL time missed by Chisholm, “it’s really almost two months where he wasn’t stealing bases,’’ said Boone.
On June 10, Chisholm exited a game due to groin tightness and he did not steal another base for the next 39 games, through July 29.
Jazz Chisholm’s stats with Yankees
Over his first 167 games with the Yankees, dating to his 2024 MLB trade deadline acquisition from the Miami Marlins, Chisholm had 40 homers and 48 steals.
But Chisholm, 27, had never previously achieved a 30-30 year in five full big-league seasons.
“In my whole career, I always thought I could be better than 30-30 every time, if I stay healthy,’’ Chisholm said earlier this month. “Even though I really didn’t stay healthy this year, I’m still showing that I could still get there.’’
