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Game 150: Yankees vs. Blue Jays
TORONTO — Alex Rodriguezhas made his expected return to the Yankees’ starting lineup, but not in the expected spot in the batting order. Joe Girardi had him batting fifth behind Robinson Cano on Saturday. More will be up on Yankees.com soon, but here are your starting lineups for Game 2 at Rogers Centre …
YANKEES (90-59)
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Robinson Cano, 2B
A-Rod, 3B
Nick Swisher, RF
Jesus Montero, DH
Brett Gardner, LF
Austin Romine, C
Pitching: RH Bartolo Colon (8-9, 3.55 ERA)
BLUE JAYS (76-74)
Mike McCoy, SS
Kelly Johnson, 2B
Jose Bautista, RF
Adam Lind, 1B
David Cooper, DH
Colby Rasmus, CF
Brett Lawrie, 3B
Adam Loewen, LF
Jose Molina, C
Pitching: RH Henderson Alvarez (1-2, 3.09)
Some links from last night …
* Yankees suffer walk-off loss, CC struggles
* Yankees Notebook, on A-Rod, Cervelli and Bobby Murcer
* Colon hopes to trim Yanks’ magic number
– Alden
Game 149: Yankees vs. Blue Jays
TORONTO — Greetings from north of the border, where Alex Rodriguez is out of the lineup once again with that nagging thumb but says he’s feeling more encouraged now than he has since first suffering the injury. Hitting coach Kevin Long suggested a new grip, one that has A-Rod separating his hands by about a half an inch so that his left thumb doesn’t make contact with his top hand, and the Yankees’ third baseman felt comfortable with it while taking live BP. Now, he’s thinking real positively about starting on Saturday.
“It’s the best I’ve felt in over a month, since the Mauer groundball, there’s no question,” Rodriguez said after coming off the field with seven rounds of BP under his belt. “It’s a good idea by Kevin, and we’ll just take this for a while and take it from there.”
Here are today’s lineup, with original Blue Jays starter Brett Cecil being scratched with a cut on his left finger.
YANKEES (90-58)
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Nick Swisher, RF
Eric Chavez, 3B
Jorge Posada, DH
Russell Martin, C
Brett Gardner, LF
SP: LH CC Sabathia (19-8, 2.93 ERA)
BLUE JAYS (75-74)
Mike McCoy, SS
Eric Thames, LF
Jose Bautista, RF
Edwin Encarnacion, DH
Adam Lind, 1B
Brett Lawrie, 3B
Colby Rasmus, CF
J.P. Arencibia, C
Kelly Johnson, 2B
SP: RH Dustin McGowan (0-0, 9.00 ERA)
Girardi on Cano, who returned to the lineup after being struck in the foot by a pitch on Wednesday: “That’s one thing I don’t think people talk enough about is Robbie’s toughness. We’ve seen him hit plenty of times where we thought he wouldn’t play the next day or even stay in the game, and he does.”
– Alden
A-Rod out 3-4 days, Swisher’s MRI shows inflammation
Alex Rodriguez’s thumb issue is continuing to bother him and the Yankees will sit him for 3-4 days on the recommendation of the training staff.
“It’s healing. It’s better than it was whenever I sat out for it,” Rodriguez said. “I feel like there’s a difference between being hurt and playing through bumps and bruises. I’m not concerned playing through bumps and bruises, but even with bumps and bruises, I could do serious damage [at the plate]. With the way I am right now, I don’t think that’s possible.”
Nick Swisher’s MRI showed mild tendinitis, Joe Girardi said. He’ll get looked at again tomorrow but could be back in the lineup on Monday.
A-Rod has MRI on thumb in New York
The Yankees sent Alex Rodriguez to have a MRI performed on his left thumb today in New York, and it came back clean. Still, manager Joe Girardi said that it is “really questionable” that Rodriguez will be available to play in the upcoming series against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Rodriguez will re-join the team on Tuesday in Boston.
Meanwhile, Derek Jeter is walking around better after taking a foul ball off his right kneecap. Girardi said that he could use him on Monday as a pinch-hitter in an emergency.
Globetrotters hoop it up with the Yanks
Flight Time and Big Easy of the Harlem Globetrotters stopped by Yankee Stadium on Wednesday afternoon to hang out with the Yankees, and tried to show Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swisher a couple of their tricks.
Not bad, but still, I think the guys will be sticking to their day jobs.
Photos courtesy of Lori Berkowitz.
A-Rod’s X-rays negative; listed as day-to-day
Photo: Nick Laham/Getty Images
This just announced by the Yankees’ media relations department:
X-rays taken on Alex Rodriguez at Yankee Stadium were negative. He has a sprained left thumb and is listed as day-to-day.
Rodriguez was seen on the bench with his left hand tightly wrapped in a bandage during tonight’s game. Regardless of what he said earlier, it looks unlikely that he’d be available to pinch-hit.
Now, the question is, could he be in the lineup tomorrow? That photo at right seems to suggest he won’t, but we’ll see what they have to say postgame.
A-Rod scratched from lineup with jammed thumb
NEW YORK — Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was scratched from Tuesday’s lineup with a jammed left thumb, but believes he will be back in action after just one day off.
Rodriguez said that the injury occurred on Sunday at Target Field against the Twins, when Rodriguez back-handed a Joe Mauer single in the eighth inning of New York’s 3-0 victory.
“It swelled up a little bit,” said Rodriguez. “It’ll probably just be a day.”
Rodriguez said that he iced the thumb on Monday, feeling it swell up as he attended an event for teammate David Robertson’s ‘High Socks for Hope’ charity.
He was seen Tuesday by team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad after taking about 24 swings of batting practice on the field Tuesday at Yankee Stadium, cutting his session short due to the discomfort.
Rodriguez said that he told manager Joe Girardi he would be available to pinch-hit or pinch-run against the A’s on Tuesday, but playing defense seems to be out of the question.
“That’s actually the thing that’s the most painful, to put the glove on,” he said.
Sunday marked Rodriguez’s first game back in action at the big league level after having surgery to repair a torn right meniscus, going 0-for-5.
He said that he would try to look at Tuesday’s scratch as a positive, giving him one more day to bounce back.
“The good news is, the knee feels great, the body feels good,” Rodriguez said. “It’s just hopefully a little bump in the road here and we’re on track.”
A-Rod done at SWB, says he won’t play Thursday
Alex Rodriguez’s time with the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees is complete. He played eight innings at third base tonight against the Durham Bulls and was 1-for-2 with a RBI and two walks. He had five chances in the field, making one error.
Rodriguez told reporters at the game that he is heading to Minneapolis to join the Yankees, but won’t play Thursday.
“I think there is a progression,” Rodriguez said. “I think one of the things we talked about was playing a few games, taking a day off. I think that is going to be the exact schedule when I get up there.”
“Tentative” A-Rod may not be activated Thursday
Alex Rodriguez said he felt “a little tentative, a little hesitant” playing the field last night at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and the Yankees are willing to go at Rodriguez’s speed as far as activating him.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi said that Rodriguez will travel to Minneapolis after playing tonight for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at Durham, but if he isn’t activated Thursday, the Yankees would be fine with just having him work out for a day or two.
“Our plans right now are still to bring him to Minnesota tomorrow if everything goes OK,” Girardi said. “We may not activate him. We may just have him go through some things for a couple of days, then wait a couple of days to activate him.”
A-Rod homers, doubles in first rehab game
Alex Rodriguez finished tonight 2-for-3 with a home run, a double and a strikeout, driving in two runs for the Class-A Tampa Yankees against the Dunedin Blue Jays in Dunedin, Fla.
A-Rod tipped his cap to the fans after homering on his first swing of the rehab assignment, coming on a 3-1 pitch from left-hander Willie Collazo. He also ripped the line drive double to right field off Collazo in the third inning, coming on a 1-2 pitch, before striking out looking in the fifth against lefty Matt Wright.
The plan is for A-Rod to play five or six innings in the field at Dunedin on Saturday, and perhaps play in an intra-squad game on Sunday in Tampa. He’ll take Monday off and then join the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees for games on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Bryan Hoch
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