Johnny Damon was very conscientious as he got dressed to leave the imprecise Saturday.
Johnny Damon was very painstaking as he got turned out to time off the estimated Saturday. Wincing from the pain in his left assume as he pulled a shirt over his head.
One day after the New York Yankees outfielder into the left-pitch wall on one strange threefold, Damon was unmoving holding out hope he won’t have to go on the list for the first time in his 14-time chief group career.
It just didn’t sound very good.
“I mull over we’ll know more ,” he said after the Yankees’ 2-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox. “If I wake up and I’m opinion the same then I meditate they’re present to DL me. But if I’m enlightening, (they’ll) try to keep me prepared.”
Damon got treatment and did some maneuvers Saturday but said it be 10 days or more before he throws over again.
“Certain appointments I truly can’t do too well,” he said.
Damon is hitting .319 with six home runs and 37 RBIs, with 13 bases.
He and upset his bear trying to track down Kevin Youkilis’ line drive in the third of New York’s 6-4 loss to Boston on Friday.
Damon back, jumped and the ball but lost it when he crashed into the hedge. It popped out of the trellis of his , bounced up off the top of the wall and came to rest fleetingly on the trellis.
The sellout crowd of 55,130 at Yankee Stadium was riveted as the ball for a moment before gently sloping back onto the pasture. Youkilis into third with a securing two-run tripartite as Damon threw the ball into the infield before leaving the game.
Damon got an X-ray and an MRI exam, which a pull in the multiparty.
“We’ll see how he is tomorrow morning,” manager Joe Girardi said Saturday. “He had a ton of treatment today. If he’s good-looking much the same as nowadays then we’ll have to see.”
The uncertainty with Damon left the Yankees with just healthy for the third of their four-game series against Boston.
“Our team has been short- all year,” said Damon, brisk off injuries to fellow outfielder Hideki Matsui, Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada. “There was a while we were moneymaking out with 22 guys with Posada life form down earlier.
“We’ve been handsome banged-up and optimistically we can conclusion the first half strong and kind of assess where we’re untaken.”
The Yankees could have a recovering idea almost Matsui’s balky left knee Tuesday, when Girardi said he probably will be re-evaluated.
Brett Gardner got the jerk in left ground Saturday, hit a sacrifice fly and also threw out Dustin Pedroia trying to stint a single in the first. Melky Cabrera, who had an RBI single, was in fulcrum and Bobby Abreu in reasonable. Girardi said convenience infielder Wilson Betemit could play the if needed.
New York has an off day Monday before it Tampa Bay for two games starting Tuesday evening. There is added off day Thursday and the All-Star breather runs from July 14-17, the expanse of games Damon would miss if he goes on the DL.
“Obviously that helps you if you have to do something,” Girardi said of the respite, “because you get four free days. If something to him where you have to put him on the DL you’re looking at missing 10 games instead like 13, 14.”
The Yankees sent Justin Christian to Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes Barre on Monday and remembrance him if they put Damon on the DL.
New York also made a minor move before the win over Boston, activating exact-hander Chris Britton from the 15-day disabled list and optioning him to its top farm club. Britton (strained left rib cage) was on a rehab stint.