Yankees’ Torres despatched to hospital for core damage

NEW YORK — For the second straight evening, a New York Yankees win over their rival Boston Purple Sox was tarnished by in-game accidents.

This time, infielders Gleyber Torres and Gio Urshela gave the Bronx Bombers a scare when each left Sunday’s sport resulting from accidents. In the intervening time, the replace on Urshela is promising, whereas uncertainty looms over Torres’ standing.

In line with Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone, Torres left Yankee Stadium late within the Bronx Bombers’ 7-Four win and was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital, the place he underwent exams associated to a core subject. Boone declined to say how the damage occurred or present any additional particulars associated to it. He needed to attend till the outcomes of the testing got here again.

Torres’ father tweeted late Sunday evening that his son was being discharged and deliberate to journey with the Yankees for his or her highway collection opener in opposition to the Orioles.

“After the scare tonight, GT is leaving the hospital and every thing is okay,” the tweet mentioned in Spanish. “The bus waits for him, they usually go straight to Baltimore.”

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ESPN’s Buster Olney famous following Torres’ first-inning groundout to 3rd base that he seemed to be in some discomfort whereas operating down the first-base line. Torres stayed within the sport till he was changed within the eighth inning by DJ LeMahieu.

“GT’s robust,” Yankees proper fielder Aaron Decide mentioned. “Hope he exhibits up for Baltimore. He likes to hit at Camden Yards, so it will be good to have him, for certain.”

In 13 profession video games in Baltimore, Torres is batting .432 with eight homers and 14 RBIs. Seven of these eight have are available journeys to the Inside Harbor this yr. The precise explanation for Urshela’s accidents was plainly seen to the practically 47,300 current on Sunday within the Bronx and the numerous extra watching the nationally televised sport elsewhere.

Within the sixth inning, with no runners on and two out, Urshela was embroiled in a tough at-bat with Purple Sox reliever Ryan Weber when he fouled two pitches off one leg every. First, he blasted an 89.9 mph sinker right into a spot simply above his proper knee. Two pitches later, he despatched one other 89.9 mph sinker into his left shin.

After the primary foul ball, Urshela hobbled round behind residence plate, bending on the waist to assemble himself as Boone and a coach got here to guage him. Urshela stayed within the sport, solely to immediately hit the bottom when he despatched the second ball off his left leg.

“He goes down, and also you’re identical to, ‘Man,'” Boone mentioned.

Finally, Urshela was helped to his toes after Boone and head athletic coach Steve Donohue got here out to see him. As he gathered himself to step again within the batter’s field, the sold-out crowd started chanting, “Gio! Gio!”

“I used to be going up and down the dugout saying he’ll hit a house run proper right here,” Decide mentioned.

He did not. Urshela chopped the following pitch he noticed again to Weber, who threw out the gingerly operating Urshela at first base to finish the inning. Boone got here out yet another time to examine on his third baseman and left him within the sport.

Two and a half innings later, Urshela needed to depart.

“Because the inning wore on and into the following inning, it appeared prefer it was stiffening up on him,” Boone mentioned, “so it was at that time, it was time to take him out.”

X-rays had been detrimental on each of Urshela’s legs. He iced each and acquired them wrapped across the areas the place he was struck. The wraps had been so closely constructed that as he ready himself to talk with reporters following the sport, Urshela had bother placing on his pants round his proper leg.

Type of pissed off after attempting to slide into the pant leg, he beckoned the reporters over and requested them to talk to him whereas he stood half-wearing his pants. As soon as the temporary session was over, he sat down and was capable of wiggle into the opposite pant leg.

“Really feel higher than I did throughout the sport,” Urshela mentioned. “A bit swollen.”

For now, he mentioned, he plans to be within the lineup on Monday in Baltimore.

Sunday’s accidents got here the day after the Yankees misplaced Edwin Encarnacion (hairline fracture in his proper wrist) and Aaron Hicks (proper flexor pressure) to the injured checklist. Each might be out a big period of time, however the Yankees are hopeful that they are going to return with a number of weeks of the season remaining.

They had been the newest to go on the Yankees’ exhaustive 16-man injured checklist.

“This entire workforce’s robust. Everybody’s robust,” Decide mentioned. “We all know what we have been by. In order that’s why it motivates a whole lot of us. We all know how exhausting all people’s working and the way beat up all people is, and we have to remain in there and maintain combating.

“We nonetheless have a whole lot of season left to play and a whole lot of baseball to play in October. We’re simply going to maintain shifting alongside, and the following man goes to step up and maintain doing his job. That is the best factor about this workforce is nobody’s attempting to take the load on themselves. Everybody’s attempting to cross the baton and ensure of their duties. I will do my job, and the man behind me goes to do his job.”

In whole, 25 Yankees have hung out on the IL this season. Torres is the lone member of New York’s Opening Day beginning lineup to have prevented the IL this yr.

“It has been loopy right here in that approach, with the quantity of issues which have occurred to guys bodily, but it surely’s additionally been one thing that is been an actual rallying cry for us,” Boone mentioned. “And it isn’t simply introduced a degree of bodily toughness to the room, but it surely’s compelled guys to be mentally robust as effectively, and it is a part of the starvation that exists with these guys. They’ve the mindset that nothing’s going to get in our approach and nothing’s going to cease us. All of them sort of pull for one another and know that the following man goes to do the job.”