While the Yankees can forge a split of the season’s Sunday Night games, thanks to losses in the first three preceding games, the best they can do in this series is salvage a win.
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After reaching second base on a double, Castro was clutching the back of his right leg near the hamstring area and was quickly removed from the game.
Ellsbury exited in the eighth inning with a right knee injury from sliding into the wall in right-center during Xander Bogaerts’ second double an inning earlier. “It will make this more challenging, what we’re trying to do”. “He wanted to try to run. He came in (after the inning) and said, ‘I can’t run.’ So that’s where we are”.
NY lost the first two games of the series and started the day six games behind first-place Boston in the American League East and four games out of the second wild card.
Castro entered the game with 11 hits in his previous 21 at-bats and was 1-for-3 on Saturday. He was diagnosed with a right hamstring strain.
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Should Castro miss the rest of the year, then Rob Refsnyder and Ronald Torreyes would be the obvious candidates to replace him. “Absolutely. But that’s not the world we live and that’s not the day and age we’re in, and every once in a while you’ve got to give a guy a day”. We play the teams that are ahead of us, a lot of them anyway.
