Yankees trusting George Lombard Jr. to play through historic error streak

The one area of George Lombard Jr.’s game that the Yankees were banking on not being an issue as they dropped him into a playoff race has failed him over the past week. But now they are trusting the 21-year-old’s other calling card to bust him out of it.  Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.After Lombard joined the wrong kind of historic company Thursday night by making an error for a sixth straight game — something no Yankees shortstop had done since 1915 — he was right back in the lineup on Friday, with the Yankees relying on his makeup and work ethic to help play his way out the defensive slump as they opened a crucial four-game series against the Red Sox in The Bronx. “Obviously six games in a row, I get it, you never want that,” manager Aaron Boone said Friday afternoon.

“But I really trust the kid and the person and the talent.So I think he’ll get through this and it’s a bump.

There’s been some plays where he’s attacked a little bit differently or they’ve been in-between plays where he’s attacked a little bit differently.But I do feel like his work and his fundamentals will serve him well and pull him through. “Even just listening to him [Thursday] night in his postgame [interview] and our little touch points with him, he’s more pissed off about it than he is deer in the headlights about it.

I think he’s an outstanding defender and I think that will prove itself here over time.” Throughout his time in the minor leagues, Lombard was known more for his glove than anything else — save for his makeup and high baseball IQ.The Yankees were confident that those tools could help carry him early on as he got his feet underneath him after he was called up in early August to replace Anthony Volpe with the club trying to chase down the Rays for the division and hold off the surging Red Sox behind them. And while the recent ...