Yankees’ Juan Soto still has some right hand discomfort
NY Post
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Juan Soto took a big whiff at strike three in the third inning Tuesday night and immediately grimaced in a concerning look.
The Yankees star remained in the game and was back in the lineup Wednesday, going 2-for-4 in a much-needed 2-1 win over the Rays.
But manager Aaron Boone acknowledged that uncomfortable-looking swing was due to the right hand discomfort that Soto has still been feeling at times after banging it on the ground against the Blue Jays on June 28.
“Every now and then, he’ll take a swing where it bothers him a little bit or a swing-and-miss where it bothers him,” Boone said Wednesday at Tropicana Field. “But overall, he’s doing pretty well with it. It’s obviously not affecting his ability to impact the ball much.”
Soto homered a few innings after initially sustaining the bruised hand and was scratched from the lineup the next day because he was having difficulty swinging the bat.
He was a late addition to the lineup the following day after it had improved enough and has not missed a game since, though he entered Wednesday batting 5-for-29 (.172) with eight walks, one home run and a .662 OPS in eight games since the injury.
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.