Yankees’ Jake Bauers injures knee in debut after making excellent catch
ARLINGTON, Texas — Jake Bauers made a spectacular first impression in a Yankees uniform — but it surely knocked him out of the sport.
Bauers, after being known as as much as the active roster earlier on Saturday, made an impressive catch to finish the underside of the primary inning at Globe Life Subject and save a run.
However he did so by sliding and slamming into the left-field wall at full pace, and he stayed down on the warning monitor after making the highlight-reel seize.
Trainers, supervisor Aaron Boone and teammates raced out to verify on Bauers, whose proper knee and face appeared to take the brunt of the collision with the wall.
He remained on the bottom for a couple of minutes as trainers labored on his proper leg.
Bauers finally walked off the sphere on his personal, however he was changed by Aaron Hicks in left subject to start out the underside of the second inning.
He left the sport with a “proper knee contusion,” the Yankees introduced. Preliminary X-rays have been unfavourable, however Bauers will endure further testing on Sunday.
It was Bauers’ offense that had earned him a promotion again to the massive leagues — Saturday was his first MLB motion since 2021 — to interchange Franchy Cordero on the Yankees’ roster.
The 27-year-old was batting .319 with a 1.271 OPS and 9 residence runs in 21 video games.
A former top-100 prospect with the Rays, Bauers has hit .213 with a .655 OPS in 328 main league video games throughout elements of three totally different seasons.
However he stated on Friday that bettering his psychological perspective has just lately allowed him to play as much as his potential.
“I’ve struggled mentally over the course of my profession thus far,” Bauers stated. “I did a number of work on myself to get to a spot the place I really feel like I’m in a great place.”