Although the Yankees do not play today, as they travel from Chicago to Texas for a three-game set against the Houston Astros, they opted not to wait the extra day to make their September call-ups official. As expected, the Yankees announced this afternoon that they had activated pitcher Ryan Yarbrough from the 15-day injured list and recalled catcher/emergency infielder J.C. Escarra from Triple-A Scranton.

Yarbrough had been a revelation for the Yankees in the season’s early goings. With both the starting rotation and bullpen decimated by injuries during the spring — Gerrit Cole, Luis Gil, Clarke Schmidt, Jonathan Loáisiga, Ian Hamilton, Jake Cousins Scott Effross, Clayton Beeter,, and JT Brubaker all began the year on the IL, and some of them never left — the Yankees signed Yarbrough to

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