It was 83 degrees on Sunday in Las Bahamas, but for the native of Nassau, Jazz Chisholm Jr., the 54 degrees of the Bronx may have felt as at home given what he had played through the week.
With the Yankees playing a section of games in cold conditions that were often felt like 20-30 degrees, the offensive production of Chishholm also collapsed before it came out on Sunday.
Chishholm broke a skate of 0 by 24 with a solitary home run of the giant reliever, Tyler Rogers, in the eighth entrance, thought it was not enough since the Yankees lost, 5-4.
“It’s the sausage for me,” Chisholm said about playing in the cold. “I am from the Bahamas, I am used to the warm climate. That is probably the coldest I have played, last week. Special to go six games in a row. But at the end of the day, this is my work and this is what I am there.
“In my contract, he doesn’t say I don’t play in less than 40 degrees, so I have to go out and do my best every day.”
After playing his games at home in Miami during the first four and a half seasons of his career in the big leagues, Chishholm has had a new normality to start the season in cold conditions (even last October, Bronx did not have this cold).
The schedule has not helped, with the first road by the Yankees road, swinging through Pittsburgh and Detroit.
Chishholm seemed more comfortable on Sunday, joking that he could play without sleeves, unlike last week, when he played in as many layers as possible and tried different remedies to stay hot.
“A lot of vaseline – Shoutout Vaseline, send me a little,” said Chisholm. “Many hot things from outside the training room. Go in the jacuzzi before the game. Creams of creams. It’s just a lot. It’s a lot to go out and play in the cold, but hey, this is our work and this is what we have to go. There are no excuses.”
The homemade homemade Sunday was his fifth of the season in his 15th game, but the first since the sixth game on April 3.
He felt that he was curling many lucky balls without luck, that it is a barrel rate of 21.9 percent (97) that entered Sunday, although the manager indicated that the conditions also played a role in their depression.
“It will be hot, I feel that,” said Manager Aaron Boone before the game. “But I feel that the weather probably has some effect on it here, so special in recent days.”