Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton took an enormous step towards his return to The Bronx, starting his minor league rehab task at Double-A Somerset on Saturday.
For the beleaguered Yankees, his comeback can’t occur quickly sufficient.
Their 5-2 loss to the Blue Jays marked the Yankees’ fifteenth loss of their final 18 video games — and their seventeenth in 25 contests since Stanton’s most up-to-date look, July 23, earlier than he went down with a left Achilles harm.
Precisely 4 weeks later, Stanton commenced his rehab task as a delegated hitter for the Somerset Patriots on the Bowie Baysox, Baltimore’s Double-A affiliate. He went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts within the first recreation of his rehab task, batting second and beginning because the designated hitter for the Somerset Patriots.
“Hopefully he’ll get by means of [Saturday night], bounce again [Sunday], be in a great place bodily,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “Hopefully he will get some motion on the bases so far as going first to 3rd or no matter it might be, simply transferring round like that. And we’ll see the way it comes out of [Saturday] and hopefully [Sunday].”
If Stanton and his Achilles comes out of it unscathed, he’ll face rehabbing starter Luis Severino in a stay batting follow on Tuesday. Severino is at the moment on the injured checklist working his manner again from a low grade proper lat pressure, and can present Stanton with a check of main league-quality.
“He is aware of himself rather well. He’ll be sincere with us so far as how he’s recovering from these issues,” Boone stated. “After which hopefully we’ll get him able to face Sevy on Tuesday, after which hopefully be able to take the following step.”
Ostensibly, that subsequent step can be a return from the IL — which couldn’t come at a greater time for the Bombers.
The Yankees have been shut out 5 instances this month and have gone 3-14 with a minus-22 run differential for the reason that commerce deadline. However getting Stanton again can be greater than any deal the crew may have made.
After ending their collection with the Blue Jays and rival Mets (on Monday and Tuesday), the Yankees will start a frightening 10-game highway journey looming. Stanton slated to hit on Tuesday — the finale of their collection in opposition to the Mets on the Stadium — there's a likelihood he may make his return once they open on the highway Thursday in Oakland.
Whether or not that’s Thursday, Friday or another recreation, it’ll initially be as a delegated hitter, simply as in his rehab look Saturday. He’ll construct as much as enjoying the sector, as he did when he got here again from a calf pressure final 12 months.
“He’ll proceed with that pregame work, transferring round within the outfield. I feel he’ll tell us and his physique will tell us once we’re able to make that step,” Boone stated. “It's one thing that I need to get to sooner or later, however permit his physique to inform us when that point is.”
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