Jordan Montgomery mentioned he felt no soreness or stiffness in his left knee when he threw his bullpen Wednesday, so the Yankees lefthander is anticipating to make his scheduled begin Friday in Baltimore.
“Feeling good, getting better every day,” Montgomery mentioned earlier than Thursday evening’s collection finale towards the Blue Jays on the Stadium. “Pitching I feel nothing. So it’s a blessing.”
Montgomery was hit within the again/aspect of his left knee in Sunday evening’s loss to the Red Sox.
“It’s like a pitcher’s nightmare, but honestly, I’d rather be in my leg than above the hips,” Montgomery mentioned with amusing.
“I got hit last year against the Astros, I got hit against the Pirates, and they should just call me a pinata,” he continued. “I’ve had worse (like in) Houston last year.”
Still, the knee was swollen and that prompted some stiffness, so the Yankees despatched him for an MRI and CT scan.
“They just wanted to kind of check on everything and stuff like that. I think Charlie Morton got hit (last year in the playoffs) and then ended up breaking his leg. Yeah, kind of just make sure that didn’t happen,” Montgomery mentioned.
Montgomery received hit within the first inning, however managed to remain within the sport and full 3.1 innings. He allowed three earned runs on 4 hits. He walked one and struck out 4.
WELCOME TO THE SHOW
JP Sears’ girlfriend and oldsters had been ready for almost every week. The younger lefty had them in New York since Opening Day, hoping they’d have the ability to share within the second when he made his main league debut.
Wednesday evening, Sears made it definitely worth the wait.
He went out and pitched an ideal inning, hanging out Blue Jays heart fielder George Springer in his huge league debut.
“It was the last night my girlfriend was able to be here before she had to go to work today so that was great,” Sears mentioned. “And then obviously it’s just better to have a debut in Yankee Stadium.”
Sears was invited to huge league spring coaching after a fairly spectacular season between Double-A and Triple-A final season. Sears pitched to a 3.46 ERA in 25 video games, together with 18 begins. In 104 innings pitched, Sears struck out 136 and walked simply 29.
“We’ve been kind of in these high leverage games each and every night where we haven’t had a lot of chances to let our length guys to just roll. So again, that gets back to we’re six games into this. So it was a chance last night to get him in,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “That it was really good to see him pitch as well as he did against a really good part of the lineup. He came in with a really efficient three strikes tactic, he trusted his stuff and I think everyone got a little peek at why we’re excited about him.”
Sears, a Sumnter, South Carolina native, grew up with Montgomery. Their mother and father are pleasant they usually’ve labored with the identical pitching coach for years.
“It was awesome. I was ready for him to get out there. He’s been chomping at the bit there in the bullpen to get in and especially the first strikeout is George Springer. That’s pretty exciting,” Montgomery mentioned.
QUARANTINED COACH
Yankees catching coach Tanner Swanson has not been with the staff this week after testing optimistic for COVID-19 on Sunday. He has been quarantined at residence and in response to MLB guidelines wants two exams to return again detrimental or wait 10 days in isolation earlier than returning to the staff.
A staff supply mentioned Swanson is feeling OK.
The Yankees had a battle with COVID-19 outbreaks final season. They misplaced a number of coaches for almost two weeks and participant Gleyber Torres within the first outbreak. After the All-Star break, Aaron Judge, Gio Urshela and Jonathan Loaisiga have been among the many gamers who examined optimistic. At the start of August, that they had one other outbreak with Gerrit Cole, Jordan Montgomery and Anthony Rizzo among the many gamers who have been sidelined.
The Bombers have been among the many first groups to be 85% vaccinated, which lowered the MLB protocols for well being and security. It is believed they’ve lower than a handful of unvaccinated gamers.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com