Yankees’ Juan Soto still feeling lingering effects of ‘painful’ hand injury
NY Post
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As long as Juan Soto does not swing and miss, he does not seem to have an issue with his right hand.
He was mostly successful at that Thursday night, except for one painful-looking whiff.
Soto homered, doubled and drew two walks in the Yankees’ 5-4 loss to the Rays, but also had a swing-and-miss in the seventh inning that forced him to call a timeout to deal with the pain, stemming from the bruised hand he suffered slamming it into the ground on a slide two weeks ago.
“Still painful, but it’s been better [recently],” Soto said after the series finale at Tropicana Field. “I have my days like the first day here, it was really painful, but it got better the next two days.”
Soto, who sat out one game on June 29 because of the hand injurybut has not missed one since, said the medical staff told him it was “nothing serious.”
He has been working with trainers daily, and the expectation is “it’s going to go away by itself” over the coming weeks.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.