DJ LeMahieu, Gleyber Torres out for Yankees with tightness issues
CLEVELAND — The Yankees were down two key regulars Wednesday for their series finale against the Guardians.
DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres were held out of the lineup because of injuries — quad tightness for LeMahieu and hip flexor tightness for Torres.
Torres said Wednesday morning he was feeling much better than Tuesday night, when he first started experiencing soreness while running the bases on a hit in the ninth inning and then was pulled in the bottom of the frame.
LeMahieu, meanwhile, began feeling tightness in his quad during Tuesday’s game, according to manager Aaron Boone, and was still feeling some lingering tightness Wednesday morning.
“Don’t want to force anything there,” Boone said. “I do think it’s a day-to-day kind of situation, but something obviously we gotta pay attention to.”
Boone said no tests were planned for LeMahieu as of Wednesday morning.
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“We’ll see where we’re at [Thursday] with it,” Boone said. “We’ll just kind of take it day by day right now.”
With LeMahieu and Torres — the two batters Boone has used to hit leadoff this season — out, Anthony Volpe was set to bat first in the series’ rubber match.
A toe injury derailed the second half of LeMahieu’s season last year, but Boone did not believe the quad tightness had anything to do with compensating for his toe.
“I think toe-wise he’s 100 percent,” Boone said. “I don’t think it’s related.”
Boone expected to have Torres available off the bench against the Guardians and was waiting to make a determination on LeMahieu.
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