Yanks’ Stanton Goes on 10-Day IL With Left Hamstring Pressure

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton was positioned on the injured record with a left hamstring pressure on Sunday.

Stanton hit a two-run double off the left discipline wall within the seventh inning on Saturday, and referred to as for a pinch runner. He’ll have an MRI to find out the severity of the damage.

“Let’s see what the MRI says,” supervisor Aaron Boone stated earlier than Sunday’s sport towards the Minnesota Twins. “He’s shifting round OK after the sport however he positively prefer it was earlier than even getting the MRI that was an IL stint. We’ll see what we obtained.”

Stanton is batting .269 with 4 homers and 11 RBIs in 13 video games this season whereas splitting time between the outfield and designated hitter.

Since 2011 Stanton has been on the injured record in all however the 2014, 2017 and 2018 season, and that is the fifth straight season with some kind of damage.

Final yr, he missed greater than a month due to tendinitis in his left Achilles; the Yankees have been 11-17 throughout that point. Earlier within the 2022 season, Stanton missed 9 video games with proper ankle irritation. In 2021, Stanton performed 139 video games, his highest complete since 2018, but additionally missed time with a left quadriceps pressure.

“Clearly he’s obtained an superior construct and physique,” Boone stated when requested why Stanton will get damage so incessantly. “He works very laborious to attempt to keep away from this stuff however sadly is one thing that’s occurred with him. So I don’t know. “

The four-time All-Star has a profession .264 batting common with 382 homers and 928 RBIs.

Infield prospect Oswald Peraza was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to fill Stanton’s spot. Peraza is hitting .289 in 9 video games this season; he misplaced the spring coaching shortstop competitors with Anthony Volpe.

Peraza made his main league debut final yr and batted .306 with a homer and two RBIs in 18 video games. He began 11 video games at shortstop, three at second base and was New York’s beginning shortstop in Recreation 2 of the ALCS in Houston.

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