TORONTO — Isiah Kiner-Falefa was a sufferer of the Yankees’ offense. He tweaked his left hamstring working first to dwelling on Saturday and was not out there on Sunday. That turned apparent when the Bombers had Giancarlo Stanton on base within the ninth and couldn’t pinch run for him of their 10-9 loss to the Blue Jays.
Kiner-Falefa is optimistic he’ll be capable of play on Monday when the Yankees kick off a sequence with the Rays at Tropicana Field.
“Just some hamstring tightness, it just tightened up on me a little bit, it was a little crampy, so better to take care of it now after getting the two wins of the series and figured going into Tampa playing on turf, it was best to rest today,” Kiner-Falefa stated. “So I had a full rest day today.”
That included when Boone used everybody else on the bench and needed to transfer Gleyber Torres again to shortstop after which couldn’t pinch run for Stanton within the ninth.
Kiner-Falefa stated he had this sense as soon as earlier than.
“In 2020 I felt something similar when I was with Texas after the first game of the season, sat one game completely off and then played every game the rest of the season,” Kiner-Falefa stated of the COVID-shortened 2020 season, when he performed 58 of 60 video games. “So I told them that that had happened before, the training staff, and that’s kind of how we went about it. Take a day and make sure I do everything possible to get it going and hopefully from tomorrow on I am good to go.”
Kiner-Falefa has hit .273/.320/.325 with 11 doubles and 18 RBI. He’s been a stable shortstop who makes some tremendously huge performs and has had some struggles with the routine. Torres has thrived offensively and defensively since they moved him out of the shortstop function final September. Not desirous to mess with that, Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone used Marwin Gonzalez at quick Sunday. He homered, giving the Yankees their first homer from the shortstop place this season.
FATHERS DAY
Aaron Boone celebrated Fathers Day by honoring his father and grandfather on his pre-game cleats Sunday. He had artist renderings of his father and grandfather, each main leaguers, on the tops of his toes. He and his brother, the third technology of Boone MLBers, have been additionally on the sneakers, as have been his kids.
“Andy Friedman, an artist out of Brooklyn, made these,” Boone stated.
He additionally had firm on the journey.
“My wife and daughter were here all weekend, as you know, they’re flying back today back to New York. So it’s really cool having them here this weekend. Good to get to spend some time with them,” Boone stated. “And then just being in there with these guys right now. A lot of fathers obviously.”
MADE PEACE
YES cameras caught Josh Donaldson, who spent the weekend listening to fairly energetic boos from the followers he used to play in entrance of, and Gerrit Cole performing some bonding. It was an odd couple contemplating final 12 months, Donaldson known as out Cole as one of many pitchers who got here again to earth after MLB started checking for unlawful sticky stuff.
“Like any team, any family, you always have things that come up, issues that come up and these guys have done a really good job of running through those,” Boone stated. “And I think through it all, whether it’s a great time to go through that, it brings closeness, whether it’s challenging times, if you can get through those, usually it makes you a little bit closer, and there’s no question this group is really, really tight.”
Boone had Cole and Donaldson sit down and hash out their points in spring coaching when the Yankees introduced within the third baseman.
INJURY UPDATES
Domingo German will start his rehab project this week with the low Class-A Tampa Tarpons, Boone stated. The right-hander has been on the injured record with proper shoulder impingement syndrome since March. … Aroldis Chapman goes to face stay hitters for the primary time this week. Boone misspoke about Chapman’s final outing, which was only a bullpen—which means no hitters within the field swinging. He threw 28 pitches. Chapman will face hitters on Tuesday on the participant improvement advanced in Tampa.
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