New York Yankees Brett Gardner (11) reacts after striking out during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, April 24, 2016, in New York.
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Instead, Longoria wound up doubling off the left-center wall, and a barrage followed.
Rodriguez is batting just.
“Anytime someone leaves with an oblique, you’re not really optimistic because they take a while depending on the severity of it”, Girardi added before the MRI results were announced. So yeah, I worry.
“I hope whatever it is turns out to be really, really minor”.
“No, I think [playing two men short] would be pretty hard to do, so we’re going to have to make an evaluation off what we see from that MRI and make a decision, ” Girardi said. “He made some pitches, then he left some over the plate”.
Yankees OF Aaron Hicks (left shoulder inflammation) said he felt a little better but not healthy enough to play. Should that happen, former Yankees first baseman/outfielder Nick Swisher could get the call from Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, where he is after rejoining the franchise earlier this month. “So I think he’s seeing him [Monday]”, Girardi said. That was about the only positive for the inconsistent right-hander, who was roughed up for 10 hits and seven earned runs over five innings in the Yankees’ 8-1 loss at the Stadium. “There were some balls that were middle”. But Rodriguez’s usual reps in the cage took a wrong turn when he was lifted from the game in the sixth inning due to left oblique stiffness. Dickerson followed with his fifth homer, deep into the right-field bleachers. Dustin Ackley pinch-hit for A-Rod after he came out on Sunday.
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Alex Rodriguez will undergo an MRI after leaving Sunday’s game against the Rays with oblique tightness. Souza is 6 for 12 with three home runs against Pineda.
