Yankees get Giancarlo Stanton MRI results, then make IL decision
The Yankees beat the Rangers 4-2 on Monday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Sitting behind a desk in the manager’s office five minutes after another Yankees win, this one a 4-2 series opener over the Rangers on Monday night, Aaron Boone talked about Max Fried’s six shutout innings as well as the left-hander’s “great” and “unique” pickoff move producing another out. He talked about Ben Rice pulling off the near impossible with an opposite-field homer to left-center field at Globe Life Field and Aaron Judge coming up next and hitting a “1 to 12 breaking ball” out to left for a “hold your beer moment. ” He talked about nervously watching from the visiting dugout when the Rangers were rallying in the ninth on David Bednar and thinking to himself, “Hang on, baby, just hang on!
” And then Suzyn Waldman chimed in with a question that’s been asked every day since last Friday in Houston, sometimes twice. Any word on Giancarlo Stanton ? This time Boone had news to pass along: “Low grade (right calf sprain).
IL. It doesn’t look too serious, but enough to not want to wait a couple more days. So we’ll see what we have as the week unfolds.
” Stanton first felt calf tightness jogging from first to second base when Jazz Chisholm walked in the sixth inning of last Friday’s 12-4 win in Houston. He left the game after slowly advancing to third base on a hit by J. C.