NEW YORK — After most Yankees players had showered, dressed and headed for a bus to depart for a late-night trip to Baltimore, third baseman Gio Urshela wobbled slowly to his locker wrapped in a yellow towel.
He just returned from icing his right knee and left shin, which were banged hard by foul balls two pitches apart when he was batting in the sixth inning of Sunday night’s 7-4 win over the Boston Red Sox.
All the while, All-Star second baseman Gleyber Torres was at a local hospital having tests done for a “core issue” that may or may not be a serious injury.
The Yankees loved sweeping four from Boston - this was a first since August 2009 - but the weekend again tested their mindset due to yet another rash of injuries.
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Players have been dropping since spring training, and another wave hit in this series. First baseman Edwin Encarnacion suffered a fractured wrist in Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader, center fielder Aaron Hicks suffered a right flexor strain in Game 2, then Urshela and Torres departed Sunday night’s win with their issues.
Urshela thinks that he won’t need to miss any time, but the Yankees nervously were waiting after midnight to find out more on Torres.
No details of what happened to Torres or how serious his injury is were provided during manager Aaron Boone’s post-game news conference.
“Gleyber’s got a core issue, he went to the hospital for test and that’s it,” the manager said.
Torres exited before the top of the eighth inning, then Urshela departed before the Red Sox hit in the ninth.
“I feel good … better than during the game,” Urshela said. “There’s some swelling. I think I’ll be good.”
Urshela didn’t look good trying to get dressed. In fact, he met with reporters with one pant leg on and one off because he gave up for a few minutes trying to put his right on one after a few tries. Following his short interview, he tried again and almost fell down before sitting on a chair to finish dressing.
“He’s sore,” Boone said. “We X-rayed it just to be safe. Negative. He just fouled a ball above his knee on the right side and then on the shin on the left side. It stiffened up on him pretty good. We’ll see how he is.”
It’s been like this all season for the Yankees, who already have had 25 players on the injured list for a total of 32 stints counting Encarnacion going on for the first time and Hicks for the second on Saturday.
If Torres joins them, every Yankees Opening Day starter except for pitcher Masahiro Tanaka will have been on the IL at least once this season.
“It’s been a crazy year in that way with the amount of things that have happened to guys physically,” Boone said. “But it’s also been something that has been a real rallying cry for us.”
The Yanks certainly haven’t let the injuries affect their play. Their 72-39 record is the best in the American League and has them eight games up on the second-place Tampa Bay Rays in the AL East.
“I think (the injuries have) not just brought a level of physical toughness to the room, but it’s forced guys to be mentally tough as well," Boone said. "I think it’s part of the hunger that exists with those guys because they have the mindset that nothing is going to get in our way and nothing is going to stop us. They all kind of pull for each other and know that the next guy is expected to do the job.”
The Yankees did some celebrating after Sunday’s win. When the media was let in the clubhouse about 20 minutes after the final out, 1970s rock band Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” was blasting. Reliever Tommy Kahnle was singing along loudly at his locker while others bobbed their head to the beat.
The injuries had been brought up though a few minutes earlier by winning pitcher J.A. Happ.
“I was fortunate to be able to address our guys real quick after the game,” Happ said, “and I said, ‘Let’s keep the blinders on, man, because there’s all the injuries, the trade deadline, performance’ … all these things going on the outside that we try to ignore and I think we’ve done a good job of that and I think you’ve seen us step up. It was a big series for us.”
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2019-08-05 11:38:00Z
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